Where can the very young industry of Web Ops learn from? Keynote - John Allspaw from Surge Conference.

• System Engineering - Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed

• Fault Tolerance - looking at massive

• Control Systems Engineering

• Max users on apache or max connections to your db - Sheer Pin -

Interesting  which arent about the web but relate to Systems Enge

• Complex Systems Fail in Funny Ways - Accidents, Living with High-Risk Technologies

• An Engineers view of Human Error - Human Error comes in different flavors

• RAD Lab

Why do systems engineers have it easy?

• No one dies when the site goes down

• If we make a mistake we can recover quickly

• Future is bright

John concludes in these calls to actions:

• Look around!  NASA, go to non web conferences that relate, for example, systems safety

• Engage Academia

• It’s time for our field to get more sophisticated