The Cloud Will Not Save You - from your technical debt

the cloud will not save you

from your technical debt

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why?

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maybe you’ll save money

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maybe you’ll save time

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your datacenter

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your crash-cart

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It’s 3:00 AM, which hex editor is your favorite when fixing partition tables?

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EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance (instance-ID: i-073aef125fd6c549d)

in the eu-west-1 region. Due to this degradation, your instance could already be unreachable. After 2016-07-01 01:00 UTC your instance, which has an EBS volume as the root

device, will be stopped.

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does Netflix really run Chaos Monkey™ in

production?

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AWS is chaos monkey as a service

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I’m sure GCP and Azure are too


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make sure you have the resources you’ll need


you have to look at every system and ask, can it survive failure?

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this is an opportunityto do all the things


you’ve swore you were doing all along


instances can replaced,you can add new

instances without intervention, and

the lost of an instance means nothing


you get to sleep at night


I’m @jonahhorowitz on twitter

I work at Netflix

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The Cloud Will Not Save You - from your technical debt