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Building for Gracious Failure

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Talkat RailsConf 2019 · 2019-05-01..05-03· [devops-and-delivery, engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:James Thompson
website:https://james.thomps.onl

resources

video:https://youtu.be/mWaev36MPdg
slides:none on file

summary

Everything fails some of the time and the concrete wins: add Bugsnag and SignalFX to move from noisy logs to metrics that reveal staging jobs are 100% failing, use LogRocket to tie errors to user actions, migrate millions of data points carefully and avoid YAML/Psych parser crashes by returning null for corrupt values, design services to accept partial inputs, and stop trusting dependencies blindly to prevent a distributed‑monolith cascade.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 3:34We Can't Fix What We Can't See
  3. 12:41Fix What's Valuable
  4. 25:53Trust Carefully

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