Speaker: Kolton Andrus

Founder Gremlin and previously a Chaos Engineer at Netflix

Kolton is the founder of Gremlin Inc - helping companies build more robust services. He was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix, focused on the resilience of the Edge services. He designed and built FIT: Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website. At both companies he has served as a ‘Call Leader’, managing the resolution of company-wide incidents. Kolton is passionate about building resilient systems, primarily as it lets him break things for fun and profit.

Find Kolton Andrus at

@koltonandrus

Senior Software Engineer

Tracks

Monday, 13 June

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Case studies from: Google, Linkedin, Alibaba, Twitter, and more...
Stream Processing @ Scale

Technologies and techniques to handle ever increasing data streams
Culture As Differentiator

Stories of companies and team for whom engineering culture is a differentiator - in delivering faster, in attracting better talent, and in making their businesses more successful.
Practical DevOps for Cloud Architectures

Real-world lessons and practices that enable the devops nirvana of operating what you build
Incredible Power of an Open-Sourced .NET

.NET is more than you may think. From Rx to C# 7 designed in the open, learn more about the power of open source .NET
Sponsored Solutions Track 1

Tuesday, 14 June

Better than Resilient: Antifragile

Failure is a constant in production systems, learn how to wield it to your advantage to build more robust systems.
Innovations in Java and the Java Ecosystem

Cutting Edge Java Innovations for the Real World
Modern CS in the Real World

Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
Containers: From Dev to Prod

Beyond the buzz and into the how and why of running containers in production
Security War Stories

Expert-level security track led by well known and respected leaders in the field
Sponsored Solutions Track 2

Wednesday, 15 June

Microservices and Monoliths

Practical lessons on services. Asks the question when and when to NOT go with Microservices?
Modern API Architecture - Tools, Methods, Tactics

API-based application development, and the tooling and techniques to support effectively working with APIs in the small or at scale. Using internal and external APIs
Commoditized Machine Learning

Barriers to entry for applied ML are lower than ever before, jumpstart your journey
Full Stack JavaScript

Browser, server, devices - JavaScript is everywhere
Optimizing Yourself

Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Sponsored Solutions Track 3

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