How Chaos Engineering Ensures Seamless Delivery For Over 200 Million Netflix Subscribers | A Conversation With Amy Smidutz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
06/18/21 • 22 min
Engineering, automation, and... chaos monkeys? 🤔🙊Amy Smidutz, Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, explains how breaking things during production helps increase resilience to failure.
In this episode, you’ll learn how large companies like Netflix deliver content seamlessly to hundreds of millions of subscribers. Spoiler alert: it’s not what you might expect.
Counterintuitively, chaos experimentation and breaking things during production can actually help reduce fail-overs for millions and improve resiliency to outages. You’ll hear about the importance of reducing blast radius, why regional failures can prevent large outages, and how automating away certain tasks reduces human error.
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Amy Smidutz
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On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/amysmidutz
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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Engineering, automation, and... chaos monkeys? 🤔🙊Amy Smidutz, Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, explains how breaking things during production helps increase resilience to failure.
In this episode, you’ll learn how large companies like Netflix deliver content seamlessly to hundreds of millions of subscribers. Spoiler alert: it’s not what you might expect.
Counterintuitively, chaos experimentation and breaking things during production can actually help reduce fail-overs for millions and improve resiliency to outages. You’ll hear about the importance of reducing blast radius, why regional failures can prevent large outages, and how automating away certain tasks reduces human error.
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Guest
Amy Smidutz
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-smidutz-a0310526
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/amysmidutz
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Host
Ellen Xu
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu
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This Episode’s Sponsors
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For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast
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Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?
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Microchipping Humans And Breaking Backbones | A Conversation With Cyber-Thriller Author Deb Radcliff | Your Everyday Cyber With Limor Kessem And Diana Kelley
Hear the straight scoop about cyber-hackers from Deb Radcliff the first journalist to cover cybersecurity as a beat and the author of the recently published thriller: Breaking Backbones.
Tune in to hear:
- How Deb started covering cybercrime in 1996
- What it’s like to be harassed by Kevin Mitnick’s friends
- The real deal on “hacker groups” like the l0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow
- What the term “hacker” really means
- What’s up with those crazy hacker names like: Des0l8tion, Sk3w, and Elv3n
- What it was like to make the shift from journalism to cyber-thriller author
- Issues and concerns with human microchipping
- Some of the real world characters that are fictionalized in the book
- Sneak peak into the rest of the trilogy
- How you can win an autographed copy of Deb’s book!
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Guest
Deb Radcliff
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-radcliff-910b79189/
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/DebRadcliff
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Hosts
Limor Kessem
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/limor-kessem
Diana Kelley
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/diana-kelley
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Resources
Microchipping humans wields great promise, but does it pose greater risk? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/human-microchipping-sparks-debate-over-privacy-exploitation
Fact check: Americans won’t have microchips implanted by end of 2020 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/01/fact-check-americans-will-not-receive-microchips-end-2020/5413714002/
Breaking Backbones: Information Is Power — https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Backbones-Information-Hacker-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B092HQTJNR/
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From Marketing To Red Team | A Discussion With Maril Vernon | The Hacker Factory With Phillip Wylie
Maril Vernon shares her path from marketing to pen testing, and red team operator. Maril shares how she got into offensive security without pentesting certs.
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Maril Vernon
On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/shewhohacks
On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilvernon/
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Phillip Wylie
On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/phillip-wylie
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