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Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

aired Oct 07, 2026 · 118.0m
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Summary

Sam Newman is the author who wrote probably the most widely read book on microservices, and yet, as you heard, he said that microservices are an architecture of the last resort.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, think, including: Sam was in the room when the term microservices was coined.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I find him to be one of the most thoughtful engineers on this topic, as well as on resilient systems, and his latest book, Building Resilient Distributed Systems, is out now
  2. 02If you want to understand what it takes to build resilient systems, from an expert who has been knee-deep in this topic for 10 plus years, this episode is for you
  3. 03This episode is presented by TurboBuffer, the AI retrieval layer built on object storage
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