Name: Was Leslie Lamport Right? - Sarah Christoff, Edera & Nic Jackson, Hashicorp
Start: 2025-04-02T12:00:00+0100
End: 2025-04-02T12:30:00+0100

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I

Leslie Lamport, the Father of Distributed Systems, has produced extensive research, many of which date back to the 1970s. These theories are often quoted as "impractical" in modern distributed systems, but how many millions of dollars could we have saved by implementing them if they weren't?

We will learn a little history about distributed systems and the man whose thinking started a movement. We take dense concepts such as concurrency, consistency, and clocks and teach through fun, real-world, practical experiments reminiscent of high school science class. Once class is out, it's time to bring it back to the real world, showcasing how Lamport influenced cloud native systems.

As a takeaway, we will provide blueprints for these experiments, from bare metal to multi-cloud. Empowering you to deliver research-driven change within your organizations and minimizing 3 AM pages while adding content to make resumés shine.

Finally, you will be able to answer: Was Leslie Lamport Right?

Speakers

Sarah Christoff

Staff Software Engineer, Edera

Sarah is a software engineer at Edera who loves making complex code more digestible. She is the self-proclaimed founder of the Leslie Lamport fan club. When she's not bugbusting, she is running her animal rescue and competing in triathlons. She believes code should be like cats: intelligent... Read More →

Nic Jackson

Developer Advocate, Hashicorp

Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go”, a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go,

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I

Operations + Performance

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Sarah Christoff

Nic Jackson

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