4–7 Nov 2019

Shannon Weyrick
Vice President, Architecture, NS1

Shannon Weyrick is vice president of architecture at NS1. A 20-year veteran of internet infrastructure, Shannon is an accomplished technical architect, developer, and leader whose experience encompasses both development and operations of globally distributed platforms. Previously, Shannon worked at INAP and F5. A regular open source contributor, he has led and worked on a wide range of infrastructure projects from high-performance servers to novel programming languages and runtimes, and he enjoys writing and speaking at industry conferences.

Sessions

13:25–14:05 Thursday, 7 November 2019

Location: Hall A3

Chaos engineering and war gaming with a flamethrower

Building Cloud Native Systems

Shannon Weyrick (NS1)

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DDoS mitigation is an ever-evolving art. Architectures change, attackers get more creative, and keeping the team and platform ahead of the curve is a constant battle. Chaos engineering to the rescue. Shannon Weyrick examines using DDoS war games as a means of keeping the platform resilient, the team’s skill set polished, their tools in top shape, and their spirits and confidence high. Read more.