Sam Newman
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2026 | QCon London 2026 | QCon | speaker | Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading FailureSmall things going wrong can quickly snowball. The cascading failure is often a nightmare scenario for any system. An initial problem, which in isolation seems…Show lessSmall things going wrong can quickly snowball. The cascading failure is often a nightmare scenario for any system. An initial problem, which in isolation seems like such a minor problem, can kick off a chain reaction of ever-increasing failures, potentially leading to catastrophic results. | |
| Apr 7, 2025 | QCon London 2025 | QCon | speaker | Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed SystemsThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again” - this quote attributed to Einstein warns us of the danger of magical thinking, hoping…Show lessThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again” - this quote attributed to Einstein warns us of the danger of magical thinking, hoping that trying something just one more time will achieve success when before we failed. But is this really insanity? | |
| Apr 4, 2022 | QCon London 2022 | QCon | speaker | Pump It Up! Actually Gaining Benefit From Cloud Native Microservices | |
| Mar 2, 2020 | QCon London 2020 | QCon | speaker | Monolith Decomposition Patterns | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Cummins | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Luca Mezzalira | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Suhail Patel | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Alasdair Allan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Anderson Parra | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Birgitta Böckeler | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Clara Matos | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Hannah Foxwell | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jim Gough | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Karthik Ramgopal | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Patrick Debois | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Sarah Wells | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Vanessa Formicola | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jon Topper | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Matthew Clark | 2 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.