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Software Delivery & Operations

LEVEL 300

Using dependency isolation to contain concurrency overload

Author: David Yanacek

Containing the impact caused by a failing dependency to affect only the relevant functionality in an application.

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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 300

My CI/CD pipeline is my release captain

Author: Clare Liguori

Learn how Amazon continuously releases changes to production safely using practices such as trunk-based development, immutable deployment artifacts, and proactive rollbacks.

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Architecture

Level 300

Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee

Author: Colm MacCarthaigh

Simplifying systems to deliver stability by avoiding scaling during times of stress.
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Software Delivery & Operations

Resilience lessons from the lunch rush

Author: Mike Haken

Strategies on how to make systems more resilient and control excessive load
Architecture

Level 300

Making retries safe with idempotent APIs

Author: Malcolm Featonby

Strategies for using idempotent APIs to reduce complexity and manage retries Correspondence
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Architecture

Level 400

Fairness in multi-tenant systems

Author: David Yanacek

Building fairness into multitenant systems to provide predictable performance and availability
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Architecture

Level 300

Avoiding overload in distributed systems by putting the smaller service in control

Author: Joe Magerramov

Strategies for avoiding the larger service from overloading the smaller one by putting the smaller service in control of the pace of interactions.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 300

Building dashboards for operational visibility

Author: John O'Shea

Building dashboards to monitor, dive deep, audit, and review distributed services and automated systems.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 300

Automating safe, hands-off deployments

Author: Clare Liguori

Strategies for continuously deploying to production while balancing safety and speed.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 300

Going faster with continuous delivery

Author: Mark Mansour

Automating the software testing and deployment process for speed and reliability.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 400

Ensuring rollback safety during deployments

Author: Sandeep Pokkunuri

Upgrading live systems with backwards compatibility, rollback, and state in mind so that changes are non-disruptive to customers.
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Architecture

Level 400

Avoiding insurmountable queue backlogs

Author: David Yanacek

Prioritizing draining important workloads from queue backlogs quickly, and avoid backlogs in the first place.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 400

Implementing health checks

Author: David Yanacek

Automatically detecting and mitigating server failures without unintended consequences from fleet-wide false positives.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 400

Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility

Author: David Yanacek

Gaining operational visibility into production systems, and troubleshoot failures with software instrumentation.
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Architecture

Level 200

Challenges with distributed systems

Author: Jacob Gabrielson

Introducing properties of distributed systems that make them so challenging, including non-determinism and testing.
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Architecture

Level 400

Workload isolation using shuffle-sharding

Author: Colm MacCarthaigh

Shuffle Sharding is one of our core techniques for drastically limiting the scope of impact of operational issues.
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Architecture

Level 200

Timeouts, retries and backoff with jitter

Author: Marc Brooker

Building resilient systems and dealing with failures by using timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter.
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Architecture

Level 300

Leader election in distributed systems

Author: Marc Brooker

Improving efficiency, reducing coordination, and simplifying architectures by using leader election.
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Architecture

Level 300

Caching challenges and strategies

Authors: Matt Brinkley, Jas Chhabra

Improving latency and availability with caching while avoiding the modal behavior they can introduce.
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Architecture

Level 300

Avoiding fallback in distributed systems

Author: Jacob Gabrielson

Building services that behave predictably during failures by avoiding fallback logic.
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Architecture

Level 300

Static stability using availability zones

Authors: Becky Weiss, Mike Furr

Architecting to use multiple availability zones for high availability and ensuring systems are statically stable.
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Software Delivery and Operations

Level 400

Using load shedding to avoid overload

Author: David Yanacek

Strategies for maintaining predictable, consistent performance in the face of overload.
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Software Delivery & Operations

200

Amazon's approach to automated software and systems testing

Author: Charlie Roberts

The session covers how Amazon increases development efficiency through fast feedback and improves user experience through nonfunctional testing. Also, learn about preventing outages through scaling exercises and chaos engineering.
Software Delivery & Operations

200

Hands-off: Automating continuous delivery pipelines at Amazon

Author: Clare Liguori

In this session, learn about Amazon’s automated approach to continuous delivery that helps release code safely and quickly, with pipelines that enable developers to focus on building solutions rather than managing deployments.

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