
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

Dec 21, 2019 • 48min
Kolton Andrus
Links:
Kolton's Twitter
Netflix blog on Histrix
Neflix blog on LDFI
Netflix blog on FIT
Jesse Robbins's Twitter
Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12fUhzpbCfwUJQQi5PDPuE32KraWwDFnpd6k19eesEUQ/edit?usp=sharingOur music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Nov 21, 2019 • 38min
Haley Tucker
Links:
Haley’s Twitter
Monocle blog post
Netflix blog post on CHAP
We Are Neftlix podcast
John Allspaw’s Twitter
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-8-haley-tucker-resilience-engineering-at-netflix/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Oct 21, 2019 • 41min
Matthew Simons
Links:
Matthew’s LinkedIn
Matthew’s talk from SREcon Americas 2017
The asteroid that may collide with Earth in 2182
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-7-matthew-simons-senior-product-development-manager-at-workiva/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Sep 21, 2019 • 39min
Subbu Allamaraju
Links:
Subbu’s Twitter
How Complex Systems Fail by Dr. Richard Cooke (PDF link)
Drift Into Failure by Sydney Dekker
Werner Vogels on compartmentalization at AWS
“Lorin from Netflix” is Lorin Hochstein and he is a great choice to follow on Twitter
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-6-subbu-allamaraju-senior-technologist-at-expedia/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Aug 21, 2019 • 37min
Adrian Hornsby
Links:
Adrian’s Twitter
Adrian’s blog post Chaos Engineering - Part 1
Adrian’s talk Patterns for Building Resilient Software Systems
Adrian’s blog post The Quest for Availability
Episode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-5-adrian-hornsby-senior-technical-evangelist-at-amazon-web-services/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Jul 21, 2019 • 38min
Caroline Dickey
Links:Caroline’s TwitterEpisode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-4-caroline-dickey-site-reliability-engineer-at-mailchimp/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Jun 21, 2019 • 34min
Paul Osman
Links:Paul’s TwitterEpisode transcript: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/podcast-break-things-on-purpose-ep-3-paul-osman-senior-engineering-manager-at-under-armour/Our music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

May 21, 2019 • 30min
Michael Kehoe
Links:
Michael’s Twitter
Michael’s blog
The InfoQ eMag with Michael’s article describing Project Waterbear (email required)
Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lqKp-PsPLjFNYqoOmrCFyJthWhlYffpvn2-BJ5YC3A4/edit?usp=sharingOur music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

Apr 22, 2019 • 36min
Tammy Butow and Ana Medina
Links:Tammy’s TwitterAna’s TwitterOur music is by Komiku. For more of Komiku’s music visit loyaltyfreakmusic.com.
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