June 9 2021 11:15 am June 9 2021 11:45 am America/Los_Angeles Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services Reliability work is typically reactive: from working on how we respond to incidents to applying what we've learned in those incidents to our applications. In this session, I'll look at the Adjacent Possible—a theory from evolutionary biology that's been applied to innovation—and how we can iterate toward things that seem impossible to know... Virtual Meet
TRACK 3: High-Performance Engineering
Wednesday, June 9 2021 11:15 am - 11:45 am PT

Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services

Reliability work is typically reactive: from working on how we respond to incidents to applying what we've learned in those incidents to our applications. In this session, I'll look at the Adjacent Possible—a theory from evolutionary biology that's been applied to innovation—and how we can iterate toward things that seem impossible to know. We'll then look at how that approach can be used to build resilient services given the unknown-unknowns of distributed systems.

Is it possible to discover unknown unknowns proactively with Chaos Engineering? Where exactly is the intersection between intentionally breaking production services and discovering the multitude of ways they could be broken with observability? This is a short presentation that leaves plenty of time to have a real-time discussion with Charity Majors, take audience questions, and explore practical steps you can take with your teams as you step your way toward improving service resilience.