Break Things on Purpose

This episode we speak with Ryan Kitchens. Ryan is a Senior Software Engineer from the Core SRE team at Netflix.

Topics include: Comparing working on Reliability for World of Warcraft, Reliability at scale for Netflix, Chaos Monkey and Ironies of Automation, the optimal number of incidents, the false confidence in TTX, mental models, post-mortems & the myth of root cause, blame and conveying success to management.

Show Notes

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Ryan Kitchens - SREcon19 - How Did Things Go Right?
Ryan Kitchens - ReDeploy 2019 - The Meat of It
Ryan Kitchens - Learning From Incidents

See also: Break Things On Purpose Episode 8 - Haley Tucker

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-11-ryan-kitchens-senior-site-reliability-engineer-at-netflix/

What is Break Things on Purpose?

A podcast about site reliability engineering (SRE); Chaos Engineering; and the people, processes, and tools used to build resilient systems. Sponsored by Gremlin. Find us on Twitter at @BTOPpod.