Sync or sink: Building resilient real-time cloud-native systems

Modern applications depend on reliable real-time synchronization, yet many cloud-native systems still fail under scale, pressure, and partial outages. This talk explores what actually works in site reliability engineering through real-world incident response stories and postmortems from large-scale distributed systems.

The session examines how teams design and operate resilient platforms by improving observability and alerting, scaling reliability across microservices, applying chaos engineering, and building systems that fail gracefully. Attendees learn how flawed assumptions, noisy alerts, and brittle automation contribute to outages, and how proven patterns in monitoring, incident management, and platform automation help prevent them.

Attendees leave with practical strategies for balancing reliability, development velocity, and cost, along with actionable techniques for building dependable cloud-native systems and calmer on-call experiences.