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Monkeys in Lab Coats: Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix
Summary
The authors present their experience in collaboration between industry and academia, describing how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing system that leverages Netflix’s state-of-the-art fault injection and tracing infrastructures.
Bio
Kolton Andrus is the founder of Gremlin Inc. He is passionate about building resilient systems, primarily as it lets him break things for fun and profit. Peter Alvaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the creator of the Dedalus language and co-creator of the Bloom language.
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