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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 3, 2026 • Session details

Resilient by Design: Building Robust Architectures in High-Stakes Financial Systems

Lyubomir Bozhinov

Green dashboards often hide fatal compliance violations. In fintech, optimizing strictly for uptime causes catastrophic blind spots. Discover why predictable unavailability beats silent data corruption.

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#1 about 4 min

Recognizing the danger of silent failures in resilient systems

Graceful degradation can hide critical failures where an unavailable system is preferable to an inconsistent one.

#2 about 8 min

Choosing to fail hard to prevent silent data corruption

Halting a system guarantees consistency when the cost of silent corruption dwarfs the cost of downtime.

#3 about 9 min

Structuring tamper-proof audit trails through event sourcing

Synchronously recording intent before execution provides an immutable event log that satisfies strict compliance regulations.

#4 about 7 min

Architecting tiered observability based on strict latency budgets

Differentiating telemetry mechanisms across hot, warm, and cold paths prevents observation tools from causing performance regressions.

#5 about 5 min

Tailoring circuit breaker policies to dependency criticality

Applying varied failure policies ensures systems degrade gracefully only where acceptable and halt where necessary.

#6 about 8 min

Validating resilience assumptions through chaos engineering experiments

Testing failure modes in production builds the confidence required to satisfy both engineering standards and regulatory mandates.

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Identifying examples of system resilience and fragility in technology

Jan de Vries Jan de Vries · WWC Europe 2026

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Mitigating latent system errors and designing for resilience

David Singleton David Singleton +1 · Coffee With Developers

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Differentiating fragile, robust, resilient, and antifragile systems

Jan de Vries Jan de Vries · WWC Europe 2026

5:05 min

Balancing strict application boundaries with resilient execution architectures

André Behrens André Behrens · WWC Europe 2026

3:46 min

Understanding system resilience and the costs of failure

Mihaela-Roxana Ghidersa · LIVE

3:08 min

Preventing catastrophic failures in high-stakes software

Lars Hupel · WWC 2023

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