PyData London 2024

Alexander Darby

Alexander is a software engineer working in cybersecurity at Palo Alto Networks. He first got into coding because he speaks Russian and wanted to automate reading endless Russian disinformation.

He cares about digital rights, inclusion in tech, writing safe code and contributing to the open source community.

When he isn't coding, he likes to drink at least 5 coffees a day and play basketball.

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Sessions

06-16
15:45
40min
5 Things I Learnt from Causing a Cloud Provider Outage
Alexander Darby

Earlier this year, my team caused an outage across Europe for a major cloud provider. The incident response taught me a lot about working with cloud data lake systems at massive scale. How do you make these systems performant, resilient, and easy to maintain? And of course, how do you stop them from behaving like a DDOS attack on the cloud provider?

Salisbury