Chaos Community Broadcast

Episode 15: The one with Cat Swetel

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode we are joined with Cat Swetel, who is a fully vaccinated technology leader. Cat talks with us about devops, feminism, and how epistemic injustice correlates to Continuous Verification.

Episode 14: The one with Jason Cahoon

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode we are joined with Jason Cahoon, Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Jason talks with us about all things Google and the DiRT framework (aka Chaos Engineering), from the massive amount of coding happening at Google to experiments reinforcing the value of DiRT itself (plus get the dirt on the DiRT curse!).

Episode 13: The one with Amy Tobey

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode we are joined with Amy Tobey, Principal SRE at Equinix. Amy discusses with us everything from what an SRE is to whether Chaos Engineering is an advanced practice to the rise of computers.

Episode 12: The one with Corey Quinn

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode we are joined with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. Corey talks with us about many things including Chaos Engineering as a cost optimization strategy for the cloud and his thoughts on AWS Chaos Engineering platforms.

Season 2 Teaser: The one at GOTOpia

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, a few of our speakers from GOTOpia 2021 joined us live for a conversation about Chaos Engineering and the benefits, the oddities, and how to undermine the practice.

Season 1 Review: The one with James Wickett

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:01 -0500

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In this impromptu episode we take a tour through highlights from each of our 12 previous guests. Season 2, here we come!

Episode 11: The one with Christina Yakomin

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we are joined by Christina Yakomin, a vanguard of reliability at Vanguard. Christina dispels the notion that Chaos Engineering is just for startups and can’t be done in high-stakes, regulated environments. This is an episode that hits just the right note—literally.

Episode 10: The one with Andy Fleener

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we are joined by Andy Fleener, Platform Operations Manager at SportsEngine, and contributing author to Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice.

We discuss his chapter on humanistic chaos and how we can apply Chaos Engineering to human systems. This leads to other subjects such as Andy’s affinity for humans and how humans approach problems and his preference for salty nut rolls versus peanut brittle.

Episode 9: The one with Liz Fong-Jones

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode we are joined with Liz Fong-Jones, developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer. She joins in the conversation to discuss observability versus monitoring and how this is critical for Chaos Engineering. Along the way we discuss unionizing software workers, how internet companies handle traffic, and more.

Episode 8: The one with Mikolaj Pawlikowski

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we are joined with Mikolaj Pawlikowski, creator of Powerful Seal and author of the Chaos Engineering book at Manning. This conversation runs the gamut from open source software to seatbelts to the much beloved Toyota Yaris. There is some practical advice on Chaos Engineering and how to help Kubernetes be more reliable through Chaos Engineering practices.

Episode 7: The one with Olga Hall

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we sit down with Olga Hall, Global Head of Amazon Video Availability and Scale to discuss Chaos Engineering, experimentation, and how to do it at scale. You won’t want to miss this episode as we learn from Olga about availability fairytales and how failure really is inevitable. We give some inside scoop on what is happening Chaos Community Day London.

Episode 6: The one with Peter Alvaro

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Peter Alvaro of Disorderly Labs and discuss chaos, failure, academics, and computer science. The topics range from data provenance to fault injection but hinge on how Peter’s LDFI research is impacting the field of chaos engineering. Also, Casey tries to talk Peter into a way to use his research as a way to pull off a bank heist, and of course, James tries to be the voice of reason.

Episode 5: The one with Crystal Hirschorn

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we experience a royal reception with Crystal Hirschorn, the Director Of Engineering at Snyk, to talk about chaos engineering and how to put those practices to work in organizations of any size. Crystal shares advice with us on how to get VP’s and others on board with chaos engineering, which looks quite different from bringing engineers along on the journey.

Throughout the conversation you will see how chaos engineering has matured from the early days of Chaos Monkey from Netflix and how it is in practice at some of the largest organizations across the globe. Crystal discusses how resilience engineering moves from academia and can be put into practice in real organizations. It helps us understand socio-technical systems and how they come into play when we write software.

Episode 4: The one with John Allspaw

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode, we are joined by John Allspaw the Co-Founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs. John instructs us on how to deal with the bad apples in our organizations, and debates whether or not we can find root cause and human error—whether the person is embodied or not. If you are interested in accident investigations, uncovering truth in complex systems, or using heuristics and correlation to find meaning, then this is the episode for you. Special appearances include Dr. Richard Cook and John’s sister, Sue Allspaw, asking hard-hitting questions that leave John speechless.

Episode 3: The one with Julie Gunderson

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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In this episode Julie explains how communication fits in your DevOps (and Chaos Engineering) efforts and she dissects the misuse of ITIL and root cause thinking as challenges to building a learning organization. After hearing her talk The Psychology of Chaos Engineering at DevOpsDays Raleigh, we knew she had to come on the show. Julie explains how to approach digital and cloud transformations as well as delivers some hilarious one-liners, making this a show to remember.

Episode 2: The one with Russ Miles

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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Russ Miles is a prolific writer and speaker on Chaos Engineering, especially well-known as an evangelist of the discipline in his home town of London. James and Casey discuss his chapter in Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice which is titled, “Open Minds, Open Science, and Open Chaos.” And as if that isn’t a mouthful, we discuss his previous published works and his Chaos Engineering-themed tour of the United States.

Episode 1: The one with Nora Jones

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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Our special guest Nora Jones and our host Casey Rosenthal are the two authors of O’Reilly’s Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice, the definitive book on the subject. We ask Nora about learning from incidents, how to facilitate a healthy Chaos Engineering program, the path that led to her writing this book with Casey, how her thinking has changed over the years, and her startup Jeli.

Episode 0: The one with Nathan Aschbacher

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:01 -0500

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Introducing the first contributing author from Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice in our series on the book, Nathan wrote Chapter 17: “Let’s Get Cyber-Physical.”

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Chaos Community We are a community of chaos engineering practitioners. Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.