Nathan Peck
Nathan Peck
Senior Developer Advocate for Generative AI at Amazon Web Services
Feb 26, 2024 29 min watch

Chaos in Containers - Unleashing Resilience

I delivered this talk about chaos engineering at CIVO Navigate North America. It felt great to deliver this talk back in my hometown, at the alumni center of The University of Texas at Austin.

 

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 03:34 - “Chaos is always losing, but never defeated”
  • 05:12 - The tiers of redundancy
  • 12:37 - A resiliency paradox
  • 13:34 - “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless”
  • 21:58 - “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing”
  • 22:48 - Chaos engineering flywheel
  • 25:33 - Building a healthy culture of fault correction
  • 27:26 - Everything is broken, but can be mended with intention