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Expect the Unexpected

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Help > About John Arthorne ● Developer/Manager/SRE at Shopify Shopify ● Software for Commerce ● 30 → 120 SREs ● Average $1700 GMV / second

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● ● ● What We’ll Cover

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high failure novelty rate

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Transparent Response ● ● ●

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Incident Simulation ● ● ●

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Game Days ● ● ●

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Turn Rusty Knobs ● ● ●

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Automated Failure Tests ● ● ●

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Software Change Rate People Change Rate High High Low Low

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Software Change Rate People Change Rate High High Low Low Incident Transparency Automated Tests Game Days Incident Simulations Rusty Knobs

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novel failures?

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Magic Recipe for Novel Failures

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Training Exercise Formula ● ● ● ● ●

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Summing Up

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Thank You! github.com/jarthorn/lego-incident-response