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A technical breakdown on the common mistakes in distributed systems.

Guest: Amara Okonkwo

Topics: Databases

We explore the biggest challenges of writing reliable software. The conversation covers learning from failure.

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A former engineer at Microsoft, with a track record of shipping cloud infrastructure.

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Known for open-source contributions.

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Once built Google, Amazon, and Stripe, bringing extensive experience in shipping at scale to every conversation. Graduated from Stanford and leads widely-used infrastructure tools.

Expertise: Open-source, DevOps, containerization, infrastructure-as-code

Joined Across the Wire Podcast | Engineering stories in 2023 after years at major tech companies.

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