Chaos Engineering reduces the impact of component failure. Chaos Days (aka Game Days) are one practice within this field, whereby controlled failures are used to learn and improve system and team response. We will describe how to run a Chaos Day on a large microservices platform, using our experience of doing this across 60 teams, 1000 microservices. The session will explore why you’d run a Chaos Day, and how to know when you and your platform are ready to do so. We’ll share our learnings of the actual mechanics of running one: how do you plan, execute and retrospect a Chaos Day. We’ll...
Lyndsay Prewer
Technical Delivery Lead
Equal Experts
An engineer at heart, Lyndsay Prewer has over twenty years experience of helping individuals, teams and organisations improve their software delivery. For the past 7 years I've been a consultant with Equal Experts, leading a range of engineering teams in the delivery of large-scale IT services. Problem domains have ranged from public sector organisations (UK’s tax and passport offices) to global, online retailers. I love helping bridge the gaps between user and business needs, engineering disciplines and service operation.