Workshop
Duration: 2h 30min
From Unreliable to Resilient: Mastering Distributed Systems
Web Summer Camp 2026 & Speakers & Arne Blankerts
Description
Distributed systems offer scalability and flexibility, but they also introduce new challenges: networks fail, messages get delayed, lost, or duplicated, and some operations - like sending an email - cannot easily be undone. Many real-world failures arise not from code bugs but from assumptions that no longer apply once a system spans multiple machines.
In this workshop, you will see how patterns like Outbox and Inbox can help shape distributed workflows that are robust and reliable, allowing systems to maintain correctness and recover gracefully even when parts of the infrastructure fail.
Speakers
Arne Blankerts
Co-Founder @ thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts has already dealt with computers when networking was still an adventure. As long-standing head of development of an internet agency, he has created solutions far ahead of their time years ago. As a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps his clients to develop software successfully. He is an author and maintainer of various Open Source development tools.