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September 27-30, 2021
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Wednesday, September 29 • 2:45pm - 3:35pm
(IN-PERSON) Planning for and Handling Failures from Open Hardware, Aviation, to Production at Google - Marc Merlin, Google

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This talk will look into the failures I've encountered in multiple fields, and learned from reading from other people's failures, a common practise in aviation that has saved countless lives in not re-creating failures and accidents out of ignorance.
You will also hopefully improve your spidey sense in things that could go wrong and ask the right questions or implement the right procedures or fixes before they become necessary after downtime.
As they say in aviation "experience is a cruel teacher: she gives you the test first, and if you survive, then you get to learn the lesson".
Aviation is supposed to be the golden standard in safety, looking at them can teach us lessons, including avoiding overconfidence and being complacent.
Some of those lessons will translate to whatever field you work in, I guarantee it. 
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Marc Merlin

Linux Engineer, Google
Marc has been using linux since 0.99pl15f (slackware 1.1.2, 1994), both as a sysadmin and userland contributor. He has worked for various tech companies in the Silicon Valley, including Network Appliance, SGI, VA Linux, Sourceforge.net, and now Google both a server sysadmin and software... Read More →

Failure Planning pdf
Wednesday September 29, 2021 2:45pm - 3:35pm PDT
Elwha A
  OS Dependability, Learning to Recognize and Predict Failures before They Happen