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Chaos Engineering at Datadog

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They had a global ELB outage in 2013, 2012, I can’t remember. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? It’s how they shift traffic when Amazon loses one of their AZs, which happens very rarely nowadays but it can happen still.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

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It’s less critical to be like a whizzbang front end engineer, who knows all this minutia of how the UI thread works, and how browsers function, because tools like React make it so you … earlier, we talked about JQuery and we talked about how that made things easier. Advance four years, to 2012, 2013, 2014.

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Grown-Up Lean

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In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. Making this transition … proved highly challenging for our business colleagues, especially culturally.