Las Vegas 2020

Your Baby is Ugly. Let's Be Friends

Highly decoupled teams allow enterprise-scale engineering organizations to move at greater velocity. But how do you build a shared culture of quality and reliability among disparate teams? Going around breaking their software doesn’t sound like a good way to build systems or friends.


Matt Simons, Senior Engineering Manager of Quality Assessment, will share how his team partners with the dozens of teams and 400+ engineers at Workiva to help them understand quality in distributed systems by breaking their software without breaking their spirits. He’ll discuss the challenges of building cross-team reliability and how they approached it using Chaos Engineering.

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Matthew Simons

Senior Engineering Manager, Workiva

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Jason Yee

Director of Advocacy, Gremlin