For any company to run on the cloud they need assurances that their workloads, services, and data will be always available and secure. To be able to provide such guarantees, application developers and cloud providers need to perform extensive verification across a number of distributed services. Traditional testing tools were not designed to verify the resiliency of such systems.

At Microsoft, we actively develop and use fault...

Resilience for many of us comes from our ability to restart applications in the face of failure. We as debuggers and operators are often forced to go back and analyze clues left behind to tease out root-cause from assets like logs, heap dumps, or even core dumps. As our systems grow, and become more distributed, these one-off investigations become less tenable and a scalable way to analyze incidents after-the-fact is needed. In this talk, we'll explore examples...