Dan Hollinger - Don't just expect for things to go wrong, plan for it, a guide for disasters
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What happens when everything breaks—literally everything? How do elite engineering teams respond when systems collapse at scale? In this talk, Daniel Hollinger shares hard-earned lessons from real outages, revealing how planning for failure, building self-healing systems, and creating blameless cultures can turn disasters into powerful learning moments.
Key Takeaways
- Plan for failure, don’t just react to it
- Positive confirmation prevents silent breakdowns
- Blameless postmortems drive real improvement
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- “Antifragile” - By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. How systems grow stronger through stress and volatility.
Parting Word of Advice
Don’t just expect things to go wrong—plan for it. Build systems and teams that can recover, adapt, and improve every time failure happens.
Speaker Bio
Daniel Hollinger is a proven engineering leader, particularly in the games and autonomous vehicles. Foundationally his philosophy revolves around people: focusing on engineering with empathy and an understanding of agile principles particularly those related to communication and self healing processes.
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