Chaos Engineering: The 5 W’s - Jacob Plicque III, Gremlin.com

In this talk, Jacob Plicque (Chaos Engineer & Resilience Coach, former Senior SRE @ Fanatics) will answer the 5 W's (who, what, where, when, & why) of Chaos Engineering.

You’ll Learn:

The methodical way to begin Chaos Engineering
The value of running chaos experiments to build more reliable systems and confidence in your remediation processes.
How other companies are using Chaos Engineering—and the positive results they’ve seen creating reliable distributed systems with CE

Chaos Engineering is NOT

Applying failure modes randomly
Applying failures to your entire infrastructure straight away
Applying failure on systems without communication
Creating a one-off fix to be run once and then abandoned

Chaos Engineering IS

Applying failures carefully, and with an explicit hypothesis
Starting small and growing the blast radius
Communicating plans clearly with all stakeholders
Designing a well-defined practice that requires constant attention

Agenda:

7:00 - 7:15 Networking/Food + Drink (provided by Terazo)
7:15 - 7:30 Meetup announcements
7:30-8:30 Talk
8:30-9:00 Q & A, Networking

Speaker Bio:

Jacob is a Solutions Architect at Gremlin where he works on Chaos Engineering, the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify systemic weaknesses and create more reliable applications. Jacob has worked on Chaos Engineering across a variety of verticals including finance, e-commerce, airlines, retail, and insurance. Jacob is also the co-host of the Break Things on Purpose podcast, a series dedicated to sharing Chaos Engineering experiences with industry experts. Jacob previously worked at Fanatics as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer where he was responsible for providing a reliable e-commerce experience to process over 1,100 orders a minute on peak days such as Cyber Monday and Black Friday.