Chaos In The Time Of Covid

“See, here I’m now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That’s, that’s chaos theory.”
– Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park

Hello all!  I know it’s been a while between posts here at the Agile Admin. Everyone’s safe and healthy, though. We’ve been quiet but busy, and in a twist of happy fate many of us are working together again!

James, Karthik, Bill, and Ernest are all now at Verica, a chaos engineering startup founded by Casey Rosenthal and Aaron Rinehart. It’s 100% remote, with people from Portland to Portland, as we like to say (Maine to Oregon). We’re still working on the initial release of the product; my team (which includes Karthik and Bill) is working on the Kubernetes module.  Really interesting stuff!  Casey literally co-wrote the book on chaos engineering and it’s a fascinating bleeding edge part of systems engineering.  If we can lure Peco over to join us then we’ll have the entire band back together!

Community stuff has been quiet.  We had to fight to get our money back from the venue from cancelling DevOpsDays Austin 2020, but we finally prevailed there.  The CloudAustin user group is meeting virtually.  And James, Karthik, and I are running the Modern Infrastructure track for All Day DevOps in November. Karthik’s speaking at KubeCon in August. We’re doing light work on some LinkedIn Learning courses, though I have to admit with the additional burden of the pandemic I haven’t been getting a lot of side stuff done personally.

As we get on our feet with chaos experimentation and this dang lockdown eases up we hope to be back with our usual mix of technical insight and Texan cussedness!  Because let’s be honest, Twitter is where you go to get dumber.

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