Designing for Failure in Infrastructure

Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.

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Featuring:

• Wanny Morellato – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Deepak Mohandas – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Infrastructure regrets and endorsements after 4 years
• Reddit signing deal with AI company
• This Week I Learned (TWIL):
  • Conventional Commits
  • Threat model cookbook

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