Deprecating Simplicity 3.0 • Casey Rosenthal • GOTO 2019

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2019. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo http://gotochgo.com Casey Rosenthal - CEO / Cofounder of Verica.io ABSTRACT When engineering teams take on a new project, they often optimize for performance, availability, or fault tolerance. More experienced teams can optimize for these properties simultaneously. Now add an additional property: feature velocity. Organizations often try to optimize for feature velocity through process improvements and engineering hierarchy, but some optimize for feature velocity through explicit architectural decisions. These decisions increase the complexity of the system. This sounds like a trade-off: you get feature velocity, but for the price of increased complexity. Mental models of architecture can help us understand the tension between these engineering properties. For example, understanding the distinction between accidental complexity and essential complexity can help you decide whether to invest engineering effort into simplifying your stack or expanding the surface area of functional output. Spoiler alert: most businesses prioritize feature velocity over simplification. Chaos Engineering was born within this conflict between feature velocity and increasing complexity. Rather than simplify, Chaos Engineering provides a mechanism for us to [...] Read the full abstract here: https://gotochgo.com/2019/sessions/736 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/book Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH Mikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/2SQ5Olf Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hCiUe8 Murphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability Engineering • https://amzn.to/2Vg6Mbr https://twitter.com/GOTOchgo https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference #DevOps #ChaosEngineering #SoftwareTeams Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO Conference near you! Get your ticket at http://gotocon.com SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1