Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2021
2021-02-25
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[Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2020, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2021, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2022, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2024]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Premiere | 17m | |
StackPulse claims to turn manual incident work into code-based playbooks, automatically enrich alerts by integrating with cloud, application and monitoring… | ||
| Chaos Engineering in 2021 | Miko Pawlikowski | 36m |
Advocates argue chaos engineering becomes useful when it’s boring and routine, not theatrical: run a 4-step experiment (ensure observability, measure steady… | ||
| The Path to self-healing systems | Leonid Belkind | 31m |
Leonid Belkind
CTO @ StackPulse
Chaos Engineering is a powerful tool to test your resilience when the unexpected occurs. But you also need to build out the… | ||
| Shift up: Continous Security and feedback loop | Swapnil Deshmukh | 08m |
Proposes a continuous feedback loop that automatically syncs production security policies (WAF/VA rule regexes, attack signatures) into non-production and… | ||
| Cyber Chaos Engineering | Aaron Rinehart, David Lavezzo | 43m |
Security chaos engineering executes controlled experiments against live systems to reveal real failures not assumptions: an open source tool Chaos Slinger… | ||
| Regain faith- Internet’s zero trust architecture | Thibault Koechlin | 19m |
CrowdSec is an open source MIT engine that reads logs, normalizes events, matches them to scenarios and shares curated reputation decisions across users. It… | ||
| Risk-Driven Fault Injection for Fast & Furious | Kennedy Torkura | 30m |
Proposes Risk-Driven Fault Injection (RDFI) as a way to prioritize security chaos experiments by measurable business risk, implements a tool called CloudStrike… | ||
| Securing the Cloud | Yury Nino, Jhon Gil Chaves | 38m |
Cloud security starts with developers: a survey of 130 engineers surveyed finds about 15% uninterested in security, 23% skip static analysis, and dependency… | ||
| Attack & Defend Mobile Apps | Romansh Yadav | 42m |
Live demo shows how to decompile APK to read layouts and classes, locate hardcoded credentials and hidden password strings, and modify package name then… | ||
| Chaos Engineering: When the Network Breaks | Tammy Bryant Butow | 27m |
Demonstrations use Gremlin against a Kubernetes hipster-shop demo to run black hole and packet loss experiments with live outcomes recorded. Claim: chaos… | ||
| Proactive optimization for Cloud | Pawel Skrzypek, Alicja Reniewicz | 49m |
Open-source Melody is a multi-cloud deployment and continuous optimizer that models apps with a Camunda/Cloud Application Modeling DSL, then uses constraint… | ||
| How to avoid breaking other people's things | Lisa Karlin Curtis | 26m |
A performance fix that cuts an endpoint’s latency in half triggers a surge of batched webhooks a few times a day and pushes database CPU to saturation; scaling… | ||
| Cloud Native Chaos Engineering at scale | Uma Mukkara | 31m |
Three years of work becomes a deployable platform: a Helm-installable Litmus portal with a public/private chaos hub, a Prometheus exporter, and declarative… | ||
| Maximizing Error Injection Realism with System Calls | Long Zhang | 31m |
A prototype called Phoebe uses eBPF-based monitors to record real syscall failures in production, clusters them into sporadic/fluctuating/steady patterns, and… | ||
| Normalizing Chaos: Embracing Failover in the Cloud | Ryan Guest | 15m |
Claims that failover becomes the normal path: Salesforce’s Hyperforce uses normalize failover so clients randomly or probabilistically hit pools across clouds… | ||
| Sensory Friendly Monitoring: Keeping Noise Down | Quintessence Anx | 21m |
Quintessence Anx
Developer Advocate @ PagerDuty
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0:00 Intro
0:26 Talk
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🥇 Gold Sponsor:
StackPulse
🥈 Silver Sponsors:
Aval Digital… | ||
| Taming uncertainty in Observability | Mahesh Venkataraman | 10m |
Claim: model observability as a spatio-temporal uncertainty problem and ingest normal plus fault‑injection traces into a spatio-temporal database. The pipeline… | ||
| 5-Technology Trends and Opportunities | Derris Boomer | 18m |
Five concrete trends: adoption of AI, IoT, machine learning, SaaS and big data; a late‑2020 job survey shows software development #1, cloud #2, security #3 and… | ||
| In the kitchen: A sprinkle of fire and Chaos | Ana Margarita Medina | 31m |
Chaos experiments use Gremlin and Kubernetes to run planned failures: observe metrics and SLOs, form a hypothesis, then run a blast radius limited CPU… | ||
| Clear the ring for Chaos Engineering | Maik Figura, Oliver Kracht | 32m |
Practitioners recount a year of running 80+ game days that uncover 120+ production-relevant weaknesses, describe a real incident where a new KCI feature caused… | ||
| One year of SRE Failures | Bart Enkelaar | 21m |
bol.com migrates to cloud and builds a central full‑time SRE team after a failed pilot where part‑time SREs fail because feature backlog outcompetes… | ||
| Organizational Chaos & recipes for Service Ownership | Joey Parsons | 11m |
A platform called effx is built to help teams operate microservices and reduce human and cognitive load by enforcing one team per service, clear contact points… | ||
| Role of Quality Engineers in SRE | Reuben Rajan George | 14m |
Argues that quality engineers move into SRE by building autonomous self-updating test frameworks that detect deployments and patch tests, validating… | ||
| Sleeping with one eye open: production support | Quintin Balsdon | 41m |
Covers concrete failures and fixes: a bank migration locks 1.9 million customers out for a month, a certificate renewal knocks 30 million users offline, Google… | ||
| Software won't make noise when it breaks | Piyush Verma | 27m |
Provides concrete failure stories and fixes: a cloud operator deleted 443 rule in a security group and missed the outage because external checks never hit… | ||
| Onboarding Chaos Engineering | Karolina Rachwał | 11m |
Karolina Rachwał
Chaos Engineering Practice Lead @ Nuaware
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0:00 Intro
0:26 Talk
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🥇 Gold Sponsor:
StackPulse
🥈 Silver Sponsors:
Aval Digital… | ||
| Postmortems, Learning & Blameless Culture | Julie Gunderson | 43m |
Describes a concrete postmortem workflow used at PagerDuty: assign one owner, schedule a 30–60 minute meeting, publish the draft 24 hours ahead, keep timelines… | ||
| Embracing the Fear of Failure | Humaira Ahmed | 15m |
Founder builds Locelle, a mentorship platform using one-to-one matching and mobile guidance to connect women with industry mentors; claims 5% of tech CEOs are… | ||
| Incident Ready: Chaos Engineer Your Incident Response | Robert Ross | 15m |
Shows concrete experiments: a timed surprise meeting where trying to update Statuspage.io exposes lack of access in 30 seconds, and scripted breaks of staging… | ||
| Blameless Postmortem Culture | Pranjal Deo | 28m |
Argues that a blameless postmortem policy combined with measurable action items with owners and tracking IDs stops repeat outages and restores psychological… | ||
| Creating a Learning Culture | Amir Shaked | 16m |
Describes a concrete program that turns failures into fixes: running a cloud microservices stack at 15,000 cores, 300 microservices reveals repeat failures, so… | ||
| Dia de los Muertos - Postmortems that save lives | Fabricio Buzeto | 07m |
Argues that postmortems become actionable by treating them as a mandatory part of incident response, an onboarding artifact and a team-bonding ritual, and… | ||
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