Matthew Helmke is a technical writer for Gremlin, which is dedicated to making the internet more reliable. He has been sitting at a keyboard since buying his first computer in 1981 and has enjoyed doing things with big computers since studying LISP on a VAX in 1985. He has written books about Linux, VMware, and other topics. Matthew always enjoys those moments when no one else notices something has failed because mitigation schemes work as designed.
For those unfamiliar with the term, a GameDay is a dedicated day for running chaos engineering experiments on our systems with our team. The goal is cooperative, proactive testing of our system ...