Enabling Reliability in the Cloud with Carlos Rojas

Exploring Sovereignty Strategy for IT Resilience with Andreas Prins

"Experiments in Chaos" is a Steadybit podcast that brings together experts in software systems reliability to discuss how to incorporate resilience practices like chaos engineering to foster a culture of reliability. In this episode, Andreas Prins joins Benjamin Wilms for a discussion on IT sovereignty and its role in business resilience. With geopolitical tensions and rising uncertainty, organizations need a strategy for future-proofing the continuity and control of their IT stacks. As AI technologies cause many executives to rethink their data privacy strategies, sovereignty will only become more important.

Preparing for the Chaos of Agentic Systems with Jessica Kerr

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms sat down with Jessica Kerr, an Engineering Manager of Developer Relations at Honeycomb, to discuss the impact of new AI agents on software systems. They explore why organizations are not ready to handle this new complexity and how they will need to shift their thinking for this new paradigm. Lastly, Ben and Jessica discuss how AI will likely impact observability, the role of chaos engineering in validating agents, and how iterative learning can benefit both team members and agents.

Rolling Out Chaos Engineering with Tom Handal

"Experiments in Chaos" is a Steadybit podcast that brings together experts in software systems reliability to discuss how to incorporate resilience practices like chaos engineering to foster a culture of reliability. In this episode, Benjamin Wilms sat down with Tom Handal, a Sr. Principal SRE at Roblox, to discuss how chaos engineering can help improve the reliability and resilience of large-scale systems. Tom shares how he overcame initial hesitation by aligning with existing processes and winning over teams by sharing experiment findings. Lastly, Ben and Tom discuss how AI will likely impact the future of reliability and chaos engineering.

Enabling Reliability in the Cloud with Carlos Rojas

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Carlos Rojas, author of "Resilience Engineering for the Cloud", about DevOps vs. platform engineering, the roles and responsibilities related to reliability, and the new trends that will be making an impact for organizations in the next six months. You can connect with Carlos Rojas on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carojas77/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/carojas77/] You can also order a copy of the book, "Reliability Engineering in the Cloud", here: https://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Engineering-Cloud-Strategies-Cloud-Based/dp/0135395798 [https://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Engineering-Cloud-Strategies-Cloud-Based/dp/0135395798]

Putting Chaos Engineering to Work with Casey Rosenthal

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Casey Rosenthal, "The Chaos Engineering Guy", about what it takes to develop a proactive approach to reliability. First, Casey shares his experience at Netflix redefining and evangelizing chaos engineering and how he was able to communicate its value to leaders in the Finance and Healthcare industries. Then, he shares his perspective on how many popular reliability approaches are provably wrong, and the importance of developing a methodology of Continuous Verification. To wrap, Ben and Casey briefly discuss how AIs and LLMs could impact the reliability space and where there could be more hype than value.