Break Things on Purpose

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Brian's Twitter: https://twitter.com/holtbt

Episode highlights:

• The importance of reliability in dev tooling (1:57)
• Chaos at Reddit (4:03)
• Frontend perspectives on Chaos Engineering (15:09)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-brian-holt-principal-program-manager-at-microsoft

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Armon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/armon

Episode highlights:

• A tool to unify devs, ops, and release engineers (1:08)
• Lowering the friction of security (8:11)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-armon-dadgar-cto-and-co-founder-of-hashicorp

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Jérôme's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpetazzo

Episode Highlights:

• Distributed databases at dotCloud & avoiding a major outage (2:18)
• Multilayered Kubernetes lasagna (16:06)
• Empowering others & what's important (24:22)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-jerome-petazzoni-tinkerer-and-container-technology-educator

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J Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpaulreed

• What is an Applied Resilience Engineer? (1:12)
• Facilitating emergent discussions in a remote world (11:14)
• Incentives and discretionary space (17:40)
• Shifting from Newtonian to Quantum thinking (24:59)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-j-paul-reed-sr-applied-resilience-engineer-at-netflix

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Veronica's Twitter: https://twitter.com/maria_fibonacci

• When marketing goes too well (2:34)
• Introduction to Go (5:28)
• Using Elixir for fault tolerance (18:50)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-veronica-lopez-senior-software-engineer-at-digital-ocean/

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Steve's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spf13

• Origins of Hugo (2:05)
• Tips for learning Go (4:44)
• Open source and contributors (9:05)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-steve-francia-product-and-strategy-lead-at-google/

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Miko's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikopawlikowski

Topics include:

• Why Chaos Engineering? (1:29)
• Miko's Book (6:55)
• Chaos Engineering for Frontends (10:21)
• eBPF (12:10)
• SLOs (16:28)

What Miko is currently excited about (21:56)
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-mikolaj-pawlikowski-engineering-lead-at-bloomberg

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Alex's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahidalgosre

Topics include:

• Alex's adventure into the absurd (3:00)
• Google's pager list mishaps (9:37)
• Crashing NYU's Exchange Server and Hyrum's Law (14:19)
• Bartending makes you better (19:16)
• Nobl9 (22:37)
• What Alex is currently excited about (30:07)

Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-alex-hidalgo-director-of-reliability-at-nobl9

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Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/this_hits_home
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/

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Kelsey’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower
Kelsey doing his Tetris demo at PuppetConf
Nigel Kersten’s Twitter
Jepsen
Kelsey’s KubeCon Keynote
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-10-kelsey-hightower-principal-developer-advocate-at-google/