Hi Venice-folks 👋... My name's Craig, I work at Antithesis and have worked with Felix a while back, and with some of the other teams at LinkedIn currently. We're hosting an industry conference in April, in Washington D.C. called BugBash, focusing on Systems and Building Reliable Applications. I had a recent customer who had their travel budget cut, and had to give back their three passes for BugBash. If anyone in the Venice community (Limit 3), is interested in attending with a no-cost pass, please DM, and I'd be happy to get you a passcode to register/attend. Below are some more details on the conference, the sessions, and speakers have been carefully curated to ensure a very thought-provoking two days. HMU directly if this piques interest. Best, _____ BUGBASH OVERVIEW 🪲 What's the Conference about: 😅 What does it take to build reliable software? BugBash is an industry conference hosted by Antithesis. The conference covers multiple aspects of building software that stands the test of time, including Testing, Formal Methods, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Infrastructure. (Conference: Link) ⌚*️ When/Where? April 23rd-24th* in Washington D.C., there will also be talks on the 22nd that run adjacent to the conference What's the set-up: ~250 attendees, 2 days of official Conference, with a single track agenda (Makes for optimal hallway discussion). The day before, there will be adjacent seminar talks somewhat unconf-like. The evening before, there's a happy hour/social event, and a dinner on Day 2. A good write-up of last year's inaugural BugBash from an attendee at Datadog: https://concerningquality.com/bug-bash-2025/ 📣 Who are the speakers? 1. Will Wilson, Founder & CEO, Antithesis 2. Deb Chachra, Olin College, author of How Infrastructure Works 3. Ben Eggers, Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI 4. Frank McSherry, CTO @ Materialize 5. Peter Alvaro, UC Santa Cruz / Father of Fault Injection 6. Chaitanya Bandari, Distributed Systems Engineer @ TigerBeetle 7. Brian Potter, author of Construction Physics and The Origins of Efficiency 8. Corwin Coburn, Senior Staff SWE at Google, Uber Tech Lead, Parallel File Systems 9. Ankush Desai, Principal Scientist, Systems Correctness, Snowflake 10. Ron Minsky, Co-head of Technology, Jane Street 11. Matt Barrett, Founder & CEO, Adaptive 12. Steve Klabnik, SWE, East River Source Control ⚡*️Confirmed lightning talks:* · Pierre Zemb - CleverCloud · Anish Agarwal - CEO Traversal · Fernanda Graciolli + Nada Amin - Midspiral · Jenny Qu - World-class Hacker 🎩 Formal methods: · Jacopo Tagliabue Bauplan · Fernanda Graciolli + Nada Amin / Midspiral · Tony Zhang / Basilisk 🪖 Hard problems in distributed systems testing: · Kyle Kingsbury - Jepsen · Marco Primi - Antithesis Red Team · Mark Logan - Mysten Labs · Who will be there: 85% Systems Engineers, 10% Academia, and Antithesis entire team of Product/Engineering will be in attendance.