Adrian Hornsby

This episode we speak with Adrian Hornsby, a Senior Tech Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Topics include: Curiosity and breaking things, the cost of downtime, Jesse Robbins and early failure injection at Amazon, making the case to management for Chaos Engineering, forming a hypothesis, and random experiments vs Game Days.

Show Notes

Links:

• Adrian’s Twitter
• Adrian’s blog post Chaos Engineering - Part 1
• Adrian’s talk Patterns for Building Resilient Software Systems
• Adrian’s blog post The Quest for Availability

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-5-adrian-hornsby-senior-technical-evangelist-at-amazon-web-services/

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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.