And learned a few things along the way — It happened more than a decade ago. While I might have forgotten some technical details, I remember how I felt like it was yesterday. “I am done. It is the end, and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3 — “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill I deleted a database in production “I am done. It is the end and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted a production database critical to our customers…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2 — “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks”. — John Muir In part 1 of this series, I talked about intuition and how it can help engineers improve their performance. In this part 2, I will talk about another soft skill critical for engineers— empathy. How it all started I…

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1 — The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein How it all started The realization that intuition was going to be important happened approximately 15 years ago. Cloud computing was still…

Discover how Amazon Search enhanced its system resilience through practical resilience engineering, transitioning from traditional load tests to large-scale experiments and achieving key milestones along the way. — Authors: Gorik Van Steenberge, Adrian Hornsby, Milosz Kosmider and Takieddine Sbiai Originally publish here. Our previous blog post provided an overview of how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through chaos engineering. In this follow-up, we will address questions and feedback received…

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Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part 2 — “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin Welcome to Part 2 of the chaos engineering blog series! In Part 1, we took a deep dive into the various experimentation modes in chaos engineering, exploring their unique benefits and…

Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part1 — Welcome to this two-part blog post series on chaos engineering best practices! In this series, I’ll be sharing insights and practical strategies that I’ve gathered throughout a decade of chaos engineering. In Part 1, we’ll dive into the different modes of experimentation for chaos engineering — from the exploratory ad-hoc…

My response to the reaction generated by the Prime Video article published last week — “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray Every now and then, the internet goes crazy over something someone said, did, or thought. Last week, it was an article from the Video Quality Analysis (VQA) team…