Stu Ainsworth on Reliability, Disaster Recovery, and Chaos Monkeys

In this episode, Frank and Andy chat with Stu Ainsworth about service reliability in a chaotic world. Links Sponsor: Audible.com – Get a free audio book when you sign up for a free trial! Notable Quotes Postmortem: VSTS 4 September 2018 ([02:00]) Stuart Ainsworth on Twitter: @CodeGumbo ([05:30]) Reliability: Expectations vs. Solutions ([06:00]) “Canada is another country.” ([11:00]) “Serendipitous” ([11:55]) TV references: MacGyver and The A-Team ([13:40]) Chaos Monkey ([00:00]) Brent‘s book review of Database Reliability Engineering ([15:00]) Andy cannot count 9’s… ([19:15]) The shifting node for “big data.” ([23:30]) Service Level Objective ([25:00]) The Black Swan (Audible) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) ([28:00]) Frank’s 9/11 Experience ([30:00]) Culture is prime. ([35:00]) The hard part is figuring out, “What is the problem we’re trying to solve?” ([35:45]) DTU ([36:50]) Things are changing. Some folks are threatened ([40:30]) Stu works for Jack Henry. ([41:40]) Risk cannot be removed by technology. ([43:30]) “… it’s kinda like an old girlfriend…” – Stuart Ainsworth ([44:30]) Road trips! ([47:30]) “We are living in interesting times.” ([49:00]) Hoschton, Georgia ([50:25]) Stu likes the book Accelerate ([52:40]) Find out more about Stu at CodeGumbo.com! ([53:45]) Learn more about Azure DataFest by following @AzureDataFest on Twitter! ([54:00])