A Postmortem on the Ingen Incident
summary
Report claims the failure is process and ethics not just buggy code and lists concrete causes and fixes: Nedry accepted a bribe and plants deliberate vulnerabilities, frog DNA causes sex changes so dinosaurs breed, the electric fences and automation fail in storms but a UNIX reboot brings systems up temporarily. The incident leaves five fatalities and many close calls. Recommended mitigations are chaos engineering (failure injection), proper budgeting, transparency and hiring trained staff.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Start
- 1:00Review of Events Flaws in Workflow Ethical Breaches Chaos Engineering
- 4:14Chaos Theory
- 4:58Systems are Down
- 5:21Dinosaur Induced Chaos
- 5:42Bonus Velociraptors
- 7:29Spared No Expense
- 8:00Application of Software
- 9:09Timelines and Scope Creep
- 9:37Bugs
- 11:38of Dennis Nedry
- 12:42Malcolm was Right: Part One
- 13:24The Consequences
- 13:41Engineering Ethics and Chaos
- 15:14What is Chaos Engineering?
- 16:52Failure Injection
- 17:41Chaos and Ethics
- 18:33How to Build a Better Park
- 18:50Increase Transparency Between Stakeholders
- 19:25Use Chaos Engineering
- 20:05Restart Kill
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