World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Why Systems Break After Initial Success: The Architectural Failures That Take Months to Surface

Christian Del Monte

Code bugs rarely crash systems months after launch—broken architectural assumptions do. Discover how hidden physical limits trigger delayed threshold failures across databases, data lakes, and microservices.

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