Automating Disaster Recovery: The Ultimate Reliability Challenge
Wednesday, 11 November 2026, 09:00 to 09:45 · Workshop room · seats 18
Workshop (90 min)IntermediateOps
Here's how I explain my job to non-techies: if a meteor struck our servers, it's on my team to fix it. But what if it did? Realistically, what would happen if a meteor struck your datacenter? Here's the story of a vision, one to fully automate disaster recovery away, how I pushed back on it claiming it was impossible, and how we still executed on it to great success.
Jazzy Van Olderen
Director of Engineering at Ironwood Software
Jazzy Van Olderen is a Director of Engineering at Ironwood Software, working on cloud cost and capacity. They have shipped and operated production systems for the last decade and are bringing a war story or two to this stage.