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# Beyond Resilience: Architecting Antifragile Systems


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 11:30–12:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 5
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100037-beyond-resilience-architecting-antifragile-systems)

## Description

Most of us build systems to be robust or resilient. We want them to resist failure or to recover from failure. But in today's turbulent world chaos is inevitable. What if your system didn’t just survive a spike in latency or a server crash, but actually got better because of it?

The concept of Antifragility, coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is the hidden engine behind modern engineering triumphs like chaos engineering, continuous deployment, canary releases and microservices. While a resilient system recovers from shocks and stays the same, an antifragile system thrives on disorder, using failures as a catalyst for growth.

In this session, we’ll move beyond the theory and look at the hidden force shaping our industry. We will explore how to transition from fragile architectures (where one error causes a cascade) to systems that leverage randomness to improve.

Don’t just build systems that don’t break. Build systems that get stronger when they do.

## Speaker

### [Jan de Vries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jan-de-vries)

DevOps Advocate at Naboek


## Related talks at this congress

- [Building Organizations That Can Actually Adapt](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1361-building) — Anastasija Removic, Claudia Tattanelli, Kerstin Wagner, Nazim Ünlü
- [Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1212-leading-with) — Maxim Schepelin
- [From Space to Software: Reliability Lessons 40 Years After Challenger](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1318-from-space-to) — Robert Barron
- [Architecture 3.0: From 90% to 99.999% Reliability in Building AI Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1211-architecture-3-0) — Ingo Eichhorst