Speaker: Chris Sinjakli
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Infra Engineer @planetscaledata
Chris enjoys working on the strange parts of computing where software and systems meet. He especially likes the challenges of databases and distributed systems.
All his programs are made from organic, hand-picked, artisanal keypresses.
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Session
Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage
Abstractions are what allow us to build the complex applications that we all use day-to-day. For example, it's rare for us to care about the precise details of on-disk storage when building an application — that's why databases exist!