Failure Testing
summary
An engineer describes the 2013 major outage at Odnoklassniki that left the site down for days, then analyzes risks the technical team identified: hacker breaches, DDoS, and system failures, and focuses specifically on system accidents. The talk covers causes and protection options for outages, i.e., approaches to detect, mitigate and prevent large-scale production failures in a high-load web service.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:21Failure examples and impact
- 11:36Redundancy and fault tolerance
- 17:39Tools and access
- 22:26Incident response plan
- 27:51Failure testing and analysis
- 38:18Q&A
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