Planning for the Worst

Explore a conference talk that delves into real-world production challenges and offers practical solutions for handling critical issues in software development. Learn from experienced developers as they share their worst production experiences and provide valuable insights on addressing problems at various application levels. Discover concrete tips, best practices, and code examples to tackle common errors, failures, and obscure issues. Gain knowledge on implementing failproof stacks, ensuring data integrity, clustering strategies, and handling data center problems. Understand the importance of geo-separation, exception handling, and performance monitoring. This talk covers a wide range of topics, including DevOps practices, cloud technologies, and statistical analysis, providing a comprehensive overview of planning for and mitigating potential disasters in production environments.

Introduction
Example
Complexity
Un unreachable backends
Failproof stack
Dont lose data
Clustering
Data center burns
Main service failed
Data center problems
Air conditioning leak
Geo separation
Code can fail
Raising exceptions
PHP
DevOps
Cloud Foundry
Docker daemon crash
DevOps is a buzzword
Statistical graph
Reverse DNS
Console
Profile
Performance monitoring
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