Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018
Track: The Art of Chaos Engineering
Chaos Engineering is an emerging discipline, but the underlying concepts are not. Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Put simply, Chaos Engineering is one approach to “breaking things on purpose” that teaches us new information about our systems through experimentation. By triggering incidents intentionally in a controlled way, we gain confidence that our systems can deal with those failures before they occur in production. Come learn from those just starting this journey as well as the experts pushing the state of the art. We will hear war stories from those putting out the fires in the middle of the night, as well as those starting the fires during the day! In the end we’ll learn how to build systems and organizations that improve in the face of failure.
Kolton is the founder of Gremlin - helping companies build more robust services. He was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix, focused on the resilience of the Edge services. He designed and built FIT: Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website. At both companies he has served as a ‘Call Leader’, managing the resolution of company-wide incidents. Kolton is passionate about building resilient systems, primarily as it lets him break things for fun and profit.
by Willie Wheeler
Principal Application Engineer @Expedia
by Sahar Samiei
Senior Product Manager @Expedia
Those coming from product-driven organizations—where product features are often prioritized over resiliency-related concerns—will understand how challenging it can be to convince teams to do resiliency work. In this presentation we’ll share Expedia’s resiliency journey, starting with resiliency as an afterthought and progressing toward resiliency as a first-class concern. Attendees will learn about the importance of partnering with the teams experiencing operational struggles, and equipping...
by Nathan Äschbacher
Chief Technology Officer @PolySync
As the complexity and criticality of our software systems is rapidly increasing; our ability and available methodologies to ensure their determinism and correctness are often nascent or sometimes even non-existent. We see the effects of this paradox as we advance the role and responsibility of software in society. Often the evidence is observed in service outages, security breaches, financial market "flash crashes", and now the ever shortening length of time between the development and...
by Dave Hahn
Sr SRE, Reliability and Chaos Engineering @Netflix
Netflix is a strong believer in Chaos Engineering and the Velocity of Innovation. Most of the time, our customers never notice the former and appreciate the latter. Occasionally however…
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A behind the scenes look at how Netflix engineering teams think about failure. The tools, techniques, and training we use...
by Kolton Andrus
Founder of Gremlin Inc, former Netflix
by Willie Wheeler
Principal Application Engineer @Expedia
by Sahar Samiei
Senior Product Manager @Expedia
by Nathan Äschbacher
Chief Technology Officer @PolySync
by Dave Hahn
Sr SRE, Reliability and Chaos Engineering @Netflix
by Adrian Cockcroft
VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud & Microservices Pioneer
by Heather Nakama
Software Engineer @Microsoft - Azure Search
by Adrian Cockcroft
VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud & Microservices Pioneer
Perfectly engineered resilient systems may be broken by confused operators when they behave differently in response to underlying failures. Highly available applications need to be resilient to failures in infrastructure, networks, applications and operators. Chaos engineering is needed to exercise the incident handling mechanisms at every level, including people and processes. This talk will look at best practices and challenges in getting to a chaos...
by Heather Nakama
Software Engineer @Microsoft - Azure Search
As the systems that support internet-scale services grow larger and ever more complex, chaos engineering has emerged as industry best practice for ensuring system resiliency. Many companies maintain entire teams devoted to chaos testing their product. But what can you do if you don't have these kinds of resources to devote to the problem? How can you get started with chaos engineering without hiring an entire team of experts?
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The Art of Chaos Engineering
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Hardware Frontiers: Changes Affecting Software Developers Today
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