VMblog Expert Interview, James Thigpen of Gremlin - Chaos Engineering Service

Ahead of Failover Conf (https://www.failoverconf.io) -- Gremlin's annual conference dedicated to reliability -- VMblog spoke with James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin, the Chaos Engineering company founded by former Netflix and Amazon engineers.

Quick background. Gremlin is the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet, and prevent costly and reputation-damaging outages. Its failure-as-a-service platform empowers engineers to build more resilient systems through safe experimentation.

Watch this video interview to learn more as Thigpen discusses his move to Gremlin, and details some of the main challenges to people adopting Chaos Engineering more broadly. Gremlin has also made a major announcement around an update to its platform, treating services as a first class citizen. Thigpen double clicks and provides more details about what this means exactly and that can benefit engineering teams.

Find out more about Gremlin at their website: https://www.gremlin.com
Check out the Gremlin free plan here: https://www.gremlin.com/getstarted/

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Jump straight in: ↪️
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Introducing James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin
0:44 - Recently joined Gremin
1:31 - Why did you join? Were you doing Chaos Engineering while at Rover?
2:31 - Main challenges to adopting Chaos Engineering
4:31 - Major Gremlin Update - How does it benefit engineering teams?
6:36 - Service oriented view - does it make it easier for developers to do Chaos Engineering?
8:24 - Reliability testing - Developers vs. Ops
11:10 - Wrap up