Presentation: Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure

Source: InfoQ.com· Sam Newman· August 19, 2026
Presentation: Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure

Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples - from the 1968 Ronan Point tower failure to AWS outages - he shares crucial resilience engineering strategies f…

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