Chaos Monkey Makes Apps Better with Eric Boyd
Carl and Richard talk to Eric Boyd about what the power of Netflix Chaos Monkey can do to your cloud application. The conversation digs into the thinking around deep testing for highly available systems - it's not what you think of, it's what you never thought about! Eric digs into the thinking around testing in production (what happens when you're too big to test?) and how the various part of the SimianArmy, including Chaos Monkey, are byproducts of very large scale applications in the cloud. You don't choose Chaos Monkey, Chaos Monkey chooses you! Make sure you activate your Windows Azure credits in your MSDN Subscription! You could win an Aston Martin!
Guests:
Eric Boyd
Eric D. Boyd is the Founder and CEO of responsiveX, a Windows Azure MVP, and a regular speaker at national conferences, regional code camps and local user groups. He is so passionate about apps and cloud services that he founded responsiveX, a management and technology consultancy that helps customers create great web, mobile and client experiences, often enabled by cloud services. Eric launched his technology career almost two decades ago with a web development startup and has served in multiple roles since including developer, consultant, technology executive and business owner. You can find Eric blogging at http://www.EricDBoyd.com and on twitter at http://twitter.com/EricDBoyd.
Links:
- Axiom 3D http://axiom3d.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
- Azure Diagnostics http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/diagnostics/
- Transient Fault Handling Block http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680934(v=pandp.50).aspx
- SimianArmy https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
- WazMonkey https://github.com/smarx/wazmonkey