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Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix

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Summary

Kolton Andrus and Peter Alvaro present how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing service at Netflix. They describe the challenges (expected as well as unexpected, technical as well as ideological) that arose, and how they overcame them.

Bio

Kolton Andrus is the founder of Gremlin Inc. He is passionate about building resilient systems, primarily as it lets him break things for fun and profit. Peter Alvaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the creator of the Dedalus language and co-creator of the Bloom language.

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Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Mar 07, 2017

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