Conference:March 6-8, 2017
Workshops:March 9-10, 2017
Keynote: Monkeys in Lab Coats: Applying failure testing research @Netflix
Location:
- Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl.
Day of the Week:
- Wednesday
Industry and academia need each other. Far from the tire fires of production, university researchers have the time to ask big questions. Sometimes they get lucky and obtain answers that change how we think about large-scale systems! But detached from real world constraints, systems research in academia risks irrelevance: inventing and solving imaginary problems. Industry owns the data, the workloads and the know-how to realize large-scale infrastructures. They want answers to the big questions, but often fear the risks associated with research. Academics, for their part, seek real-world validation of their ideas, but are often unwilling to adapt their “beautiful” models to the gritty realities of production deployments. Collaborations between industry and academia -- despite their deep interdependence -- are rare.
In this talk, we present our experience: a fruitful industry/academic collaboration. We describe how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing system that leverages Netflix’s state-of-the-art fault injection and tracing infrastructures. This collaboration required us to take risks, to accept defeats, and to constantly evolve our approach to “make it work”. We sketch the architecture of the automated failure testing system we built and some of its discoveries, while providing intuition for why it works. Along the way, we will describe the challenges (expect as well as unexpected, technical as well as ideological) that arose, and how we overcame them.
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