Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice

When the massive AWS outage in October brought down global services including Signal, Snapchat, ChatGPT, Zoom, Lyft, Slack, Reddit, McDonald’s, United Airlines, and even Duolingo, it exposed the fragility of cloud-first operations that, in today’s cloud-first world, anything can fail. As companies distribute their operations across global cloud platforms, the question is no longer “whether systems will fail”, but “how quickly they can recover and how intelligently they’re built to do so.”

Elena Lazar is among the engineers who have gained a solid understanding of this reality, a senior software engineer with over twenty years of experience designing resilient architectures, automating CI/CD pipelines, and improving observability across France, Poland, and the United States. As a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elena bridges the worlds of applied engineering and scientific inquiry.

Elena told HackRead ...