James Burns

James Burns is a tech lead at Twilio, a Cloud Communications Platform that enables developers to integrate rich communication into products. James has previously worked on security, networking, embedded systems, and hardware. He enjoys finding new ways that systems break and helping others understand complex failures.

Full Stack Fest 2017

James Burns

Practical Distributed Systems: Building for the real world with distributed tracing and chaos engineering

The modern developer is expected to ship features as fast as possible while maintaining world-class uptime and availability. Often times these two goals can feel challenging even at odds with each other. In this talk I will share the game-changing strategy, tools and disciplines necessary to achieve breakneck innovation velocity without sacrific…