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Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix
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Summary
Kolton Andrus and Peter Alvaro present how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing service at Netflix. They describe the challenges (expected as well as unexpected, technical as well as ideological) that arose, and how they overcame them.
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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Mar 07, 2017