Engineering the Future of Software
Feb 25–26, 2018: Training
Feb 26–28, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft
Vice President, Cloud Architecture Strategy, Amazon Web Services

@adrianco

Adrian Cockcroft is vice president of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on the needs of cloud native and all-in customers and leads the AWS open source community development program. Adrian has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology and is fascinated by what happens next. Previously he was a developer in the UK; worked at Sun Microsystems; was a founding member of eBay Research Labs; directed a team working on personalizing algorithms, served as a cloud architect, helped teams scale and migrate to AWS, and led the open source program at Netflix; and promoted new ideas around DevOps, microservices, the cloud, and containers at Battery Ventures. He’s also written four books, including Sun Performance and Tuning from Prentice Hall. Adrian holds a degree in applied physics from City, University of London.

Sessions

9:05am–9:25am Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Location: Grand Ballroom
Adrian Cockcroft (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating: ****.
(4.76, 17 ratings)
Chaos engineering leverages carefully designed failure injection tests and the distributed automation inherent in cloud deployments to prove that there is enough margin to absorb failures in production. Adrian Cockcroft outlines the overall architectural principles of chaos engineering and shares methods engineers can use to exercise failure modes in safety and business-critical systems. Read more.