Held on 6 October 2022
Unleashing Chaos for Fun and Profit
For over a decade, I've trusted Jon Topper of the Scale Factory to ensure the scalability and robustness of my own software systems, and those of my clients. He'll join me for a freewheeling discussion on why optimists don't become system admins and how you can be appropriately paranoid about keeping your software from falling over:
- Why Netflix relentlessly kills servers and disconnects data centres with extreme robustness tests they've dubbed the "chaos monkey".
- How uncompromising standardisation makes every system component fungible, and relevant lessons from my neighbour's sheep farm.
- Why Ronald Reagan's "trust but verify" mantra points to the right way to handle cloud providers, vendors, and even your own engineers.
