https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Cloud Architecture Presentations feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/progressive-collapse-system-resilience/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud+Architecture-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/progressive-collapse-system-resilience/en/mediumimage/sam-newman-medium-1785845419904.jpg"/><p>Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples - from the 1968 Ronan Point tower failure to AWS outages - he shares crucial resilience engineering strategies for software leaders. Learn how to strengthen components, isolate failures, and reduce interconnections to prevent catastrophic cascades.</p> <i>By Sam Newman</i> Distributed Systems QCon London 2026 Microservices Resilience Cloud Architecture Failure Fault Tolerance Transcripts Development DevOps Architecture & Design presentation Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/progressive-collapse-system-resilience/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud+Architecture-presentations Sam Newman 2026-08-19T11:00:00Z /presentations/progressive-collapse-system-resilience/en