Chaos Conf 2020
2020-10-06..2020-10-08
-- online --
as the organisers put it
We’re excited to announce the third annual Chaos Conf! Given the events with Covid-19 this year, we will be holding this event fully online for the health and safety of attendees. The unforeseen impact of this virus on our lives, our businesses, and our software highlights the importance of preparing for the unexpected. Our theme for this year highlights this:
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building a Reliable Community | Ana Medina, Jason Yee | 20m |
Community starts from a 2017 Slack workspace and grows into conferences that scale: 250 engineers in 2018, workshops and a charity “Chaos for Good” lunch pack… | ||
| Breaking Serverless Things on Purpose: Chaos Engineering in Stateless Environments | Emrah Samdan | 24m |
Shows concrete chaos experiments that break serverless apps on purpose: simulate database outages, revoke IAM permissions, throttle downstream APIs and induce… | ||
| Chaos Engineering: The Path to Reliability | Kolton Andrus | 27m |
Claims chaos engineering trains teams and hardens systems by design not drama, with concrete results: 30+ teams trained, several thousand experiments run, and… | ||
| Identifying Hidden Dependencies | Liz Fong Jones | 20m |
Honeycomb deliberately kills and restarts stateful services (Zookeeper, Kafka, homegrown storage) to find hidden dependencies: manual experiments reveal a… | ||
| Automating Chaos Attacks at Expedia | Daniel, Nikos | 25m |
Expedia describes running CI resilience tests that use testcontainers and toxiproxy to cut the connection to a ML sorting service and verify an explicit… | ||
| Lessons from Incident Management and Postmortems at Atlassian | Jim Severino | 27m |
Atlassian documents running hundreds of major incidents from 2016–2019 with about 3,000 engineering staff and 250 trained major incident managers. Response… | ||
| Can Chaos Coerce Clarity from Compounding Complexity? Certainly | Matt Simons | 26m |
Chaos tooling intentionally stresses the stack to hunt for hidden Black Swans, here exposing an intermittent messaging bus reconnect bug in a cloud native SaaS… | ||
| Stabilizing + Reinforcing H-E-Bs Curbside Fulfillment Systems While Reinventing Them | Justin Turner | 26m |
H-E-B stabilizes a brittle curbside monolith while building microservices by inserting anti-corruption services as buffers, running weekly game days with… | ||
| Lead Times and Psychological Safety within the Five Ideals | Gene Kim | 30m |
Argues that five concrete ideals—locality and simplicity, focus flow and joy, improvement of daily work, psychological safety, and customer focus—produce the… | ||
| Let Devs Be Devs: Abstracting Compliance + Reliability to Accelerate JPMCs Cloud Deployments | Rahul Arya | 31m |
JPMorgan Chase builds a centralized platform that codifies app blueprints into Terraform scripts, wires those into the standardized CI/CD pipeline, and… | ||
| Convergence of Chaos Engineering and Revolutionized Technology Techniques | Yury Yineth Niño Roa | 25m |
Argues that chaos engineering can harden IoT, AI, security and human-augmentation stacks by running scoped failure experiments and validating defenses… | ||
| The More You Know: A Guide to Understanding your Systems | Tyler Wells | 25m |
A reusable template codifies three concrete sections — service context, pregame checklist, game day — so teams answer what the service does, who the customer… | ||
| Certainty Among the Chaos | Marco Coulter | 20m |
Amazon’s finding that 100 ms ≈ 1% revenue becomes an experimentable hypothesis: use gremlin dial to change CPU, memory, pods, or quiesce 20% of containers and… | ||
| Culturing Resiliency with Data: A Taxonomy of Outages | Ranjib Dey | 29m |
Uber analyzes roughly a thousand major tech incidents and finds 65–85% change-management, 15–25% capacity, ~2–5% internal-platform distribution; each incident… | ||
| Failing Over without Falling Over | Adrian Cockcroft | 22m |
Uses STPA to enumerate failover hazards, links observability to control models, and treats near misses as data points. Recommends three-way replication across… | ||
| Self-Service Chaos Engineering: Fitting Gremlin into Grubhub's DevOps Culture | Doug Cambell | 21m |
Gremlin rolls out across pre-prod with LDAP auth and broad engineer access, hitting 2,000 clients in a week, and integrates into existing workflows via a… | ||
| Top 5 Things You Can Do To Reduce Operational Load | Rachel Obstler | 28m |
PagerDuty data shows incidents roughly double for customers in March and a 38% rise platform‑wide in the six months after the pandemic; e‑learning spikes up to… | ||
| IBM’s Principles of Chaos Engineering | Haytham Elkhoja | 20m |
IBM codifies chaos engineering into principles and a 10-step methodology that aims to give evidence and confidence to meet SLOs and SLAs for 40,000… | ||
| Scaling Culture of Resiliency in the Enterprise at Charter Communications | Nate Vogel | 22m |
Data platforms scale from 30 to 120 engineers while targeting 99.9% SLOs, using chaos engineering and automated tests to harden data pipelines. Black hole… | ||
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