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Break Things on Purpose

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Apr 20, 2021 • 24min

Brian Holt

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comBrian's Twitter: https://twitter.com/holtbtEpisode 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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Apr 6, 2021 • 16min

Armon Dadgar

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comArmon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/armonEpisode 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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Mar 23, 2021 • 27min

Jérôme Petazzoni

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comJérôme's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpetazzoEpisode 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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Mar 9, 2021 • 35min

J Paul Reed

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comJ Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpaulreedWhat 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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Feb 25, 2021 • 34min

Veronica Lopez

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comVeronica's Twitter: https://twitter.com/maria_fibonacciWhen 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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Feb 10, 2021 • 14min

Steve Francia

Steve Francia, Product and strategy lead at Google, discusses the creation of Hugo, tips for learning Go, and the significance of open source contributors. He highlights the importance of speed, simplicity, and community engagement in building reliable systems and applications.
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Jan 28, 2021 • 28min

Mikolaj Pawlikowski

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comMiko's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikopawlikowskiTopics 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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Jan 14, 2021 • 34min

Alex Hidalgo

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comAlex's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahidalgosreTopics 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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Dec 22, 2020 • 46min

Ryan Kitchens

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comRyan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/this_hits_homeRyan Kitchens - SREcon19 - How Did Things Go Right?Ryan Kitchens - ReDeploy 2019 - The Meat of ItRyan Kitchens - Learning From IncidentsSee also: Break Things On Purpose Episode 8 - Haley TuckerEpisode 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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Jan 21, 2020 • 43min

Kelsey Hightower

Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTOPPodPodcast email: podcast@gremlin.comKelsey’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightowerKelsey doing his Tetris demo at PuppetConfNigel Kersten’s TwitterJepsenKelsey’s KubeCon KeynoteEpisode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-10-kelsey-hightower-principal-developer-advocate-at-google/

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