Nicole van der Hoeven, Steve Upton: Flirting with Risk: A Playbook for Continuous Reliability
summary
A practical playbook for exploring reliability that names tools and actions: run small, permissioned chaos experiments (Netflix’s chaos monkey and tools like Gremlin or k6), pair them with observability and Etsy’s debriefing guide, and treat failures through a clear three‑option flowchart — fix bug fix test delete test — so teams can reduce risk rather than just detect it. Emphasis on game days, fault injection, BDD-style test clarity, and starting with tiny blast radii to build a learning culture. observability
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Testing as conversation
- 6:16Risk management metaphor
- 10:36Tests highlight risks
- 16:22Playful testing
- 18:49Chaos engineering
- 26:22Test pyramid & exploratory testing
- 31:12CD & automation tensions
- 37:43Flirting with risk
- 38:07Q&A
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