Sustainable Resilience
Opening Keynote at CodeFreeze 2023

What is resilience? When do I need it?

Quality software has a lot of qualities, including reliability, robustness, and resilience. What is the difference? When do we need each, how do we measure them, and how do we improve them when we must? In this talk, Jessica Kerr will define resilience, in systems as small as a program and as large as the pandemic. She'll contrast resilience with efficiency, and the tradeoffs there. You'll gain some appreciation for repetition, for wasted time, and maybe even for small talk. In appropriate circumstances, that is.

 

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Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr is made of 10 years of speaking at conferences, 20 years of software development, a Midwest upbringing and a lot of thinking about thinking. She loves software because it's made of systems, and we (as developers and operators) get to learn from it, and make it teach us stuff. That's why she works in observability, at Honeycomb. She also lives in St Louis with five other cats: one gray, one orange, one husband, and two teenagers.

 

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