# CityJS Athens 2025

> Conference · Past · 30th May 2025 – 31st May 2025 (Friday) · Serafio Community Complex, Athens, Greece

- Series: CityJS
- Time zone: Europe/Athens
- Event site: https://greece.cityjsconf.org/
- Page: https://faziz-dev.com/events/cityjs-athens-2025-05-29

Testing, monitoring, observability. They're rarely urgent, often skipped, and easy to dismiss when things are moving fast. This talk explores the tradeoffs of skipping traditional engineering practices.

## My sessions at this edition

### Engineering Without a Safety Net: Where It Works and Where It Hurts
- Role: speaker · status: delivered
- Talk · 30 min
- Page: https://faziz-dev.com/talks/engineering-without-a-safety-net-where-it-works-and-where-it-hurts

Choosing when to invest in testing and observability, and understanding the cost of adding them after a system scales.

Resources:
  - Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYAMS2KVieo (YouTube)


Full schedule: https://faziz-dev.com/events.md

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Faris Aziz: software engineer, speaker, ZurichJS co-founder. Geneva, Switzerland.
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