Samantha Schaevitz is a Principal Engineer at Google in Zürich, where she keeps Google Workspace running reliably and efficiently. Originally from California, she enjoys thinking about how complex systems can fail and figuring out what software engineers can learn from other kinds of complex systems failures. Her maximum latitudinal position is 67.853°.
The dark side of standardization
Samantha Schaevitz wants you to leave this talk better equipped to decide whether embarking on a standardization project is right for your stack or organization, and how to do it in a way that avoids common pitfalls along the way.
Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19
This talk will cover how we organized the work -- human, technical, and organizational -- needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.
