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title: Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus • Failover Conf 2021
description: At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.
doc_version: "1.0"
last_updated: 2021-04-29
slug: fireside-chat-jesse-robbins-kolton-andrus-failover-conf
outlet: Gremlin
author: Gremlin
date: 2021-04-29
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E_caMdCDIY
type: Video
excerpt: At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.
tags:
  - Chaos Engineering
  - Incident Response
  - DevOps
  - Site Reliability Engineering
  - Resilience Engineering
  - GameDay Testing
duration: 28:23
thumbnail: https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/og/fireside-chat-jesse-robbins-kolton-andrus-failover-conf.jpg
---

At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I sat down for a fireside chat on GameDay's origins at Amazon, how deliberate failure injection evolved into the discipline the industry now calls chaos engineering, and where reliability practices needed to go next.

We covered the early days of breaking production systems on purpose, the cultural resistance you hit when you first propose simulating catastrophic failures, and how those exercises changed the way Amazon thought about availability. We traced the shift from ad-hoc failure testing to systematic chaos engineering platforms, and dug into what separates teams that recover well from incidents from teams that struggle.

The session closes on the future of SRE: what engineering leaders should prioritize and how the chaos engineering community can continue raising the bar on production resilience.

## Also Mentioned

- Jesse Robbins (person)
- Kolton Andrus (person)
- [Gremlin](https://www.gremlin.com) (company)

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