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Sam Newman

Sam Newman is an independent consultant who loves solving problems with technology.

Sam Newman is an independent consultant who loves solving problems with technology. Focusing primarily in the areas of cloud, microservice architecture and continuous delivery, Sam works with companies big and small all over the world. He is also an experienced conference speaker, and author of the O’Reilly books Monolith To Microservices, Building Microservices, and the forthcoming Building Resilient Distributed Systems.

Things fall apart – Architecture to avoid progressive collapse

How to design systems so small failures stay contained, preventing cascading outages and large-scale architectural collapse.

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Try, try again

Learn why intelligent retries are essential for resilient systems, and how to implement them safely with proper limits and timing.

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