By Chris Higgins
About the Talk
Infrastructure is often complex — large collections of components interacting to deliver a seamless product to end customers. The key to successful complex infrastructures is a continual focus on simplicity.
What You’ll Learn
- How complex infrastructures can be made simple
- How to apply some basic rules to any infrastructure to enable simplicity
- How to actively build in observability to maintain simplicity
Resources
About the Presenter
Chris Higgins is Vice President of Infrastructure at DigitalOcean. He has been a Unix geek since 1989, building the Internet since 1994, and building the cloud since 2008.
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