Simon Wardley resigned as COO of Fotango during his keynote speech at OSCON, and I’m incredibly proud of him.

Simon resigned because Canon (parent company of Fotango) reversed their support for open-sourcing Zimki, the “open source utility computing platform” that Simon & his team created. I cannot comprehend why the Canon/Fotango board destroyed two years of exceptional work by a gifted team only days before launch. I can only assume they thought they knew what they were doing, and I am certain that they were terribly wrong.

I’m giving a talk at the Web2.0Expo on Wednesday called “Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design“. I’ll be using some of the lessons-learned from our deployment and how they apply to managing technology.

Failures, Disasters, & Resilient Design
(Click here for ExpoCal!)

Jesse Robbins, ex-Amazon, OpenAid

Track: Web Operations
Date: Wednesday, April 18
Time: 4:30pm - 5:20pm
Location: 2008

This talk reviews real world examples of complex systems failure and how they relate to Web 2.0. Drawing on his work as the “Master of Disaster” at Amazon and using examples from Nuclear Power to his own experiences after Hurricane Katrina, Jesse will provide:

• A methodology for managing risk with Web 2.0 technologies.
• Best practices for building Resilient Systems with Web Services & Web Scale Computing
• Stories and pictures of things blowing up!

Here’s the full-version of one of my slides: