Caching, Workers, and Performance
Application performance under repeated work and bursts: cache authority and freshness, worker scheduling and failure control, load distribution, scaling, and evidence-driven diagnosis across the request path.
Reliability And Observability
TRACKS
Capacity Planning and Performance Engineering
Load envelopes, queuing trade-offs, forecasting, and the methods used to plan system growth before painful saturation.
Incident Management and Operational Learning
Incident response as an operational learning system: paging signals, roles, triage, communication, runbooks, mitigation, postmortems, corrective actions, on-call training, and durable organizational memory.
Release Safety and Progressive Delivery
Canaries, feature gates, rollback design, change safety, and the release controls that reduce production risk.
Reliability Engineering Foundations
SLIs, SLOs, failure budgets, operational trade-offs, and the core mental models behind production reliability work.
Chaos Engineering and Resilience Labs
Failure injection, resilience drills, blast-radius control, and experiment design for hardening systems before real incidents.
Observability, Telemetry, and Production Debugging
Production observability depth for backend systems: OpenTelemetry propagation, Prometheus cardinality, logs, sampling, traces, profiling, service maps, and incident evidence.