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TITLE:Dancing with Failure - The Art of Timeouts & Retries
DTSTART:20251211T130000Z
DTEND:20251211T132000Z
SUMMARY:Dancing with Failure - The Art of Timeouts & Retries
DESCRIPTION:“Timeouts, Retries, and the Devil” dives into the often-overlooked complexity of error handling in high-scale systems. We’ll explore why short timeouts are essential for resilience—but dangerously easy to misuse—and how naive retries can spiral into system-wide meltdowns. Using real-world examples, including a postmortem-style analysis of a production incident inspired by real world problems, I’ll walk through actionable strategies to design smarter retries, prevent service hammering, and avoid cascading failures. This is a talk full of practical wisdom, gotchas, and system design insights that will stick with you the next time you’re writing retry().
LOCATION:Track 2
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