Stu Ainsworth on Reliability, Disaster Recovery, and Chaos Monkeys




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Summary: In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Stu Ainsworth about service reliability in a chaotic world.<br> Links<br> Sponsor: Audible.com - Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial!<br> Notable Quotes<br> Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018 (02:00)<br> Stuart Ainsworth on Twitter: @CodeGumbo (05:30)<br> Reliability: Expectations vs. Solutions (06:00)<br> "Canada is another country." (11:00)<br> "Serendipitous" (11:55)<br> TV references: MacGyver and The A-Team (13:40)<br> Chaos Monkey (00:00)<br> Brent's book review of Database Reliability Engineering (15:00)<br> Andy cannot count 9's... (19:15)<br> The shifting node for "big data." (23:30)<br> Service Level Objective (25:00)<br> The Black Swan (Audible) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) (28:00)<br> Frank's 9/11 Experience (30:00)<br> Culture is prime. (35:00)<br> The hard part is figuring out, "What is the problem we're trying to solve?" (35:45)<br> DTU (36:50)<br> Things are changing. Some folks are threatened (40:30)<br> Stu works for Jack Henry. (41:40)<br> Risk cannot be removed by technology. (43:30)<br> "... it's kinda like an old girlfriend..." - Stuart Ainsworth (44:30)<br> Road trips! (47:30)<br> "We are living in interesting times." (49:00)<br> Hoschton, Georgia (50:25)<br> Stu likes the book Accelerate (52:40)<br> Find out more about Stu at CodeGumbo.com! (53:45)<br> Learn more about Azure DataFest by following @AzureDataFest on Twitter! (54:00)