--- title: "Hidden Gems from the Embedded Online Conference Archives" url: https://daily.dev/posts/hidden-gems-from-the-embedded-online-conference-archives-8dsnwsu1n source_url: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1738.php type: article source: "EmbeddedRelated" published: 2026-05-31T07:48:26.505Z updated: 2026-05-31T09:34:57.580Z tags: ["testing", "agile", "embedded"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hidden Gems from the Embedded Online Conference Archives **[EmbeddedRelated](https://daily.dev/sources/embeddedrelated)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A review of Jack Ganssle's keynote 'Learning from Disaster' from the Embedded Online Conference archives. Ganssle, a veteran embedded systems engineer with NASA experience, presents decades of failure case studies spanning bridges, helicopters, and spacecraft. Key themes include the recurring nature of engineering mistakes, the dangers of compressed schedules and skipped tests, and practical tools for reducing risk in embedded development. The talk also touches on design-by-contract, asserts in production code, and the pitfalls of poorly implemented agile practices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#embedded](https://daily.dev/tags/embedded) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/hidden-gems-from-the-embedded-online-conference-archives-8dsnwsu1n)