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SYSTEM: NOMINAL

$ northbeam --city=toronto --days=2

Break prod. Fix it. Own the next outage.

An annual two-day conference in Toronto for backend engineers, DevOps teams and engineering managers: 40 talks, the hands-on “Broken Prod” incident-response workshop and an evening expo with open-source maintainers.

  • Toronto
  • 2 days
  • 40 talks
  • 3 tracks
  • ~1,800 attendees
Get Early-Bird Tickets CA$449 Student pass CA$129 · Group rate for teams of 5+

[02] WHY-ATTEND

$ whoami --audience

Less keynote theatre. More you can use Monday.

The summit is for the people who build, run and lead backend systems. Talks, a hands-on workshop and time with open-source maintainers all point at one thing: working better with production.

~1,800peers in the room
  • role_01 · status: attending

    Backend engineers

    40 talks across three tracks, so you can follow the topics your code actually lives on.

  • role_02 · status: attending

    DevOps teams

    Break a system on purpose in the hands-on “Broken Prod” incident-response workshop, then fix it.

  • role_03 · status: attending

    Engineering managers

    An evening expo with open-source maintainers, and about 1,800 peers to compare notes with.

[03] TALKS-AND-TRACKS

40 talks. Three tracks. Pick your path.

$ cat programme.md

Across two days, 40 talks are split into three tracks, so you can follow the topics that matter to your role. Track names, speakers and the full schedule will be published here as they are confirmed.

  • track_01.conf
    track 01 {name: “to be announced”speakers: “to be announced”schedule: “coming soon”}> awaiting confirmation
  • track_02.conf
    track 02 {name: “to be announced”speakers: “to be announced”schedule: “coming soon”}> awaiting confirmation
  • track_03.conf
    track 03 {name: “to be announced”speakers: “to be announced”schedule: “coming soon”}> awaiting confirmation
  • 40 talks
  • 3 tracks
  • Speakers: to be announced
  • Schedule: coming soon

[03] BROKEN-PROD-WORKSHOP

$ ./broken-prod --mode=hands-on

Broken Prod: break it, find it, fix it.

No slides. You get an incident and work it the way your team would when production is failing: the alerts, the guesses, the fix. It is practice for the moment you hope never comes.

  • Hands-on
  • Incident response
  • Details to be announced
broken-prod.sh — simulated preview

SYSTEM: NOMINAL

A toy demo of the mood, not the workshop scenario. Real details to be announced.

[05] TICKETS

Pick your pass. Bring your team.

Early-bird tickets are CA$449. Students get in for CA$129. Teams of five or more book at a group rate—pricing comes on request.

Early-bird

CA$449PER PERSON · TWO DAYS · TORONTO

  • regular_price: to be announced
  • deadline: to be announced
  • group_5_plus: ask below
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