
Break Things on Purpose
A podcast about site reliability engineering (SRE); Chaos Engineering; and the people, processes, and tools used to build resilient systems. Sponsored by Gremlin. Find us on Twitter at @BTOPpod.
Latest episodes

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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

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

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/

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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