Caitie McCaffrey
Caitie McCaffrey is a Backend Brat and Distributed Systems Diva. She currently is the Architect & Developer Manager of the Azure Sphere Security Services. She’s been with the Azure Sphere project since it’s early days in Microsoft Research, and has had the great privilege of building out the services and the team to help secure IoT. Caitie has spent her career building large scale services and systems at Twitter, 343 Industries, Microsoft Game Studios, and HBO. Caitie has credits on several video games including Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, Halo 4, and Halo 5. She maintains a blog at CaitieM.com and frequently discusses technology on Twitter
Publications
- The Verification of a Distributed System [CACM Feb 2016]
- Fail-Slow at Scale: Evidence of Hardware Performance Faults in Large Production Systems [FAST 2018]
Popular Talks
- Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices [JOTB 2017]
- Building Scalable Stateful Services [StrangeLoop 2015]
- Building the Halo 4 Services with Orleans [Qcon London 2015]
- Tackling Alert Fatigue [Monitorama 2016]
All Talks
- Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices [JOTB 2017]
- Distributed Programming in Argus [PWL SF 2017]
- A Brief History of Distributed Programming: RPC [CodeMesh 2016]
- Detection of Mutual Inconsistency in Distributed Systems [PWL PDX 2016]
- Tackling Alert Fatigue [Monitorama 2016]
- So We Hear You Like Papers 2 [Velocity Santa Clara 2016 Keynote]
- Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures [PWL NY 2016]
- The Verification of a Distributed System [QCon New York 2016]
- So We Hear You Like Papers [QConSF 2015 Keynote]
- On the Order of Billions: Building Observability at Twitter [Twitter Flight 2015]
- Building Scalable Stateful Services [StrangeLoop 2015]
- Applying the Saga Pattern [GOTO Chicago 2015]
- Building the Halo 4 Services with Orleans [Qcon London 2015]
- Architecting and Launching the Halo 4 Services [SRE Con 15 Keynote]
- Orleans: Virtual Actors for Programmability & Scalability [PWL SF 2015]
- Patterns & Best Practices for Moving From RDBMS to Azure Storage [DotNetConf 2013]
Programming Committees
- Systems We Love 2016
- Data & Distributed Systems Track: GOTO Chicago 2016
- PaPoc 2016
- Taming Distributed Architectures: QCon SF 2015
Interviews & Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Caitie McCaffrey on Engineering Effectiveness and Verifying Distributed Systems
- Techies Project
- Software Engineering Daily: Taming Distributed Architectures
- InfoQ: Scaling the Halo 4 Services, the Orleans Actor Framework
- Popforms: Leader of the Week Interview
- Hanselminutes Podcast: Halo 4 Services in Azure
- Channel 9: How Halo 4 is Using Windows Azure Service Bus
