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Datadog on Chaos Engineering

Jun 4, 2021 By Datadog In Datadog
As you scale your applications, remaining resilient to underlying network failures, resource constraints introduced by other applications, or spikes in traffic can become exponentially more complex, even with very thorough testing and processes. Chaos engineering is a discipline that encourages experimenting in production and injecting controlled failures into the system to understand how the system will react in such conditions and to improve its reliability.
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Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Jose Nino, Staff Software Engineer at Lyft

May 18, 2021 By Jason Yee In Gremlin

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Break Things on Purpose is a podcast for all-things Chaos Engineering. Check out our latest episode below. You can subscribe to Break Things on Purpose wherever you get your podcasts. If you have feedback about the show, find us on Twitter at @BTOPpod or shoot us a note at podcast@gremlin.com!

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Failover Conf follow-up: Your team and culture questions answered!

May 4, 2021 By James Thigpen In Gremlin

Thank you all for joining us last week for Failover Conf 2! We had a great turnout this year, with over 1,800 participants, 20 sponsors, and 9 amazing sessions. After more than a year of virtual events and video calls, we know that Zoom fatigue is real. We tried to make this event different by finding new ways to bring the community together and thinking of fun new ways to shake up the conference formula.

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Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus Failover Conf 2021

Apr 29, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Long before Chaos Engineering was even a phrase, Jesse Robbins was Amazon.com's "Master of Disaster" using intentional failure to help the company become more reliable. Kolton Andrus (CEO at Gremlin), sits down with Jesse to learn more about his early work with GameDays, the evolution of reliability, and where the future of SRE lies.
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Fireside Chat with Ines Sombra and Ana Medina Failover Conf 2021

Apr 29, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Reliability is a requirement for the modern internet. Ana Medina joins Inés Sombra, Sr. Director of Engineering at Fastly, to discuss their approach to resilience, how the past year has influenced the way they work, and what practices your engineering organization can adopt to become more reliable.
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Leaving the Nest: Guidelines, guardrails, and human error by Laura Santamaria Failover Conf 2021

Apr 28, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin
When we talk about reliable systems, we talk a lot about human error. Human error in an incident or a bug report is often treated with a bit of a facepalm reaction. The term masks a lot of scenarios from accidents to exhaustion to everything in between. However, human error helps us understand where our processes failed and how we can prevent the same error from happening again. In short, we need to think in terms of a framework of guidelines and guardrails. In this short talk, let’s discuss how guidelines like runbooks and guardrails like automation can help us address the fact that everyone will, at some point, make mistakes.
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Implementing DevSecOps in the DoD by Nicolas Chaillan Failover Conf 2021

Apr 28, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Delivering software quickly and securely is important for every organization, but it's even more important at the US Department of Defence (DoD) where reliability directly impacts national security. Nicolas Chaillan (Chief Software Officer, US Air Force) will discuss the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative—an initiative he leads along with the DOD’s Chief Information Officer that brings automated software tools, services and standards to DoD programs. He'll also share about Platform One, the Air Force's DoD-wide DevSecOps Enterprise Level Service that provides managed IT services capabilities, on-boarding, support, and baked-in zero trust security. This insight from operating at the most rigorous level will help you level up your own organization.
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Pragmatic Incident Response: Lessons learned from failures by Robert Ross Failover Conf 2021

Apr 28, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Incident response is overwhelming. So where do you start? There's a lot of advice out there, but it's mostly theories that aren't taking reality into account. So how do you get a process in place that actually works and scales? In this session, FireHydrant CEO and Co-Founder, Robert Ross, will share quick stories from his experience as an SRE and what tips he’s learned along the way.
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