FINDING THE JOY IN CHAOS ENGINEERING

Lenny Sharpe, Target
Brian Lee, Target

Learn how Target has built a resiliency engineering capability that enables teams to build more resilient systems and how developing a strong culture around Chaos Engineering has paid off. We'll share our journey from experimenting locally to running multi team GameDays.

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1. Finding the in Chaos Engineering Lenny Sharpe, Brian Lee
2. Fun facts about us…
3. To help families discover the joy in everyday life
4. America’s easiest place to shop
6. Where we started
7. "Don’t wait for your ticket to the dance, just show up!" Josh Hardin
8. 39 Distribution Centers 100K+ Mobile Devices 2 Enterprise Data Centers 39th Fortune 500 1,855 Stores​ 5K+ Applications
9. It’s not going to work
10. 2020 2019 2018 2017 Development and Introduction Learning and Iteration Culture and Adoption Automation and Scale
11. Culture Engineer Led Service Focused Manual Execution Fire Drills vs Documentation In the Beginning…
12. Safety Expertise Speed to value Success!
13. So now we’re experts
18. Where we are now
19. Target # Resiliency# Automation Platform #
21. The Road Ahead: Increased OKRs around chaos experimentation Continuous experimentation in production Measurement through opsPi Increased scope and scale Machine learning
22. “There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.” 
 Marv Levy
23. Thank You! Lenny.Sharpe@target.com Brian.Lee3@target.com