Gremlin CTO Matthew Fornaciari at the Virtual CTO Summit
In this talk, Gremlin CTO Matthew Fornaciari discusses moving from reactive to proactive operations.
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Performance tuning MongoDB with Chaos Engineering
You’ve pored over the MongoDB documentation, crafted highly polished and well-tuned queries, and confidently deployed your new code to production. Everything ran great at first, but once CPU or RAM usage hit a certain point, your queries suddenly slowed to a crawl. What happened, and how can you prepare for situations like this in the future? This is an unfortunate but common scenario with databases like MongoDB.
Announcing Status Checks to Ensure Safe Chaos Engineering Scenarios
One of the most important aspects of any Chaos Engineering program is knowing that every experiment is being run safely. And one of the simplest ways to ensure safe experiments is by having safeguards that prevent running chaos experiments on a system that is unhealthy or has an incident in progress. Today, Gremlin is excited to announce Status Checks, which run before you kick off a Chaos Engineering Scenario in order to verify your system is in a steady state.
Chaos Engineering and Windows: Mitigating common Windows failure scenarios
Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system for many enterprise applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server clusters and Microsoft Exchange Servers. About 30% of the world’s web application hosting systems are running Windows, making it an important part of every enterprise’s plans to prevent outages and enhance reliability.
Achieving AWS DevOps Competency Status (and What it Means for You)
Chaos Engineering was conceived as a direct response to the complexity and nondeterministic nature of cloud-based applications. Thoughtful fault injection closes the gap between traditional testing methodologies and modern approaches to software engineering like microservices, continuous delivery, and DevOps.
Reliability Matters More Than Ever Tammy Butow Failover Conf 2020
Chaos and uncertainty are all around us. Tammy Butow kicks off Failover Conf by sharing why reliability and resilience matter now more than ever — and how you can achieve it.
Built-in Application Resiliency Allan Shone Failover Conf 2020
When starting a new application build, starting with an eye on resiliency prevents headaches down the line. There are many ways to tackle this, especially within different language environments and system eco-systems, but there are many shared across them all. Getting a high-level take-away list to use as a reference later, from a dive into them during this talk, viewers will learn how to develop software that is more fault-tolerant and able to with-stand impact of failures.
Pitfalls in Measuring SLOs Danyel Fisher & Liz Fong-Jones Failover Conf 2020
We built support for SLOs (Service Level Objectives) against our event store so we could monitor our own complex distributed system. In the process of doing so, we learned that there were a number of important aspects that we didn’t expect from carefully reading the SRE workbook. This talk is the story of the missing pieces, unexpected pitfalls, and how we solved those problems. We’d like to share what we learned and how we iterated on our SLO adventure.
Human-in-the-Loop DevOps Taylor Barnett Failover Conf 2020
Within DevOps, automation has become a North Star. We want to automate the toil away, but the goal of "no toil" is unattainable. Many runbooks can only be partially automated because they still require human intervention and insights. Human-in-the-Loop DevOps is the idea that we can benefit from automating toil while still embracing the human interaction in specific tasks.
The Future of DevOps is Resilience Engineering Amy Tobey Failover Conf 2020
For more than a decade, many of us have been working to bring Devops to organizations around the world. We’ve made amazing progress, but there’s so much more to do. Now that we have continuous integration & deployment widespread and developers are taking more ownership of production, what’s next? Amy will talk about what Resilience Engineering is, how it relates to devops, and how she thinks it gives us the science and research we need to take our organizations to the next level of robustness while remaining agile and growing our ability to care for the people around us.