Testing in Production Presentation – SVCC 2018

The following post is essentially a written version of the Testing in production talk I gave at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2018. You can find the presentation deck here at slideshare.

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Book summary: Chaos Engineering

“Chaos Engineering” is a book from O’Reilly (free download), written by folks from the “The Chaos team” at Netflix. It is a GREAT read for anyone interested in resilience engineering. This post is one of my summaries, essentially a cut and paste of the most salient parts (the original is about 16,000 words; this is about 3,000), with some paraphrasing and merging/rewriting of sections for brevity.

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Talk summary: Using Chaos to Build Resilient Systems by Tammy Butow @ QCon2018

“Using Chaos to Build Resilient Systems” was a talk by given by Tammy Butow of Gremlin at QCon New York 2018 . I really enjoyed the talk, so wanted to summarize some of the key points of interest to me.

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