February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada

A crash course into high availability for cloud apps

Our applications are expected to be operational 24/7, but what does it take to achieve high availability when considering the current cloud offerings we have available?
I will go over redundancy for compute and persistence, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and active-active patterns if you need more than 99.99% availability.
I will discuss a framework to help you assess and prioritize to keep your costs and complexity in check.

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Mario Bittencourt

SAP

I am a Software Architect with over 25 years of experience designing and leading distributed systems at scale. Based in Montréal, I specialize in DDD, event-driven architectures, and building resilient cloud-based solutions.
As a passionate advocate for engineering excellence and continuous learning, I have authored over 90 technical articles on architecture, cloud, and AI, and regularly speak at technical conferences.

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