S4 E9: Matt Forniciari, Gremlin

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt Forniciari started his career at Amazon. First gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezo's directly about what was working & not working, which he rightfully so, says was stressful. Spends a lot of time outdoors, reading, and mostly just away from tech. He is so immersed in tech during the day, that in his free time he prefers to do analog activities... and a lot of activities that require motion. In fact... he claims that his career after tech will be something like a park ranger, taking care of the outdoors. While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - he was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. This is the creation story of Gremlin. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Early days and still occasionally we talked to people like, why would we ever do this?
0:05.1	We have enough chaos as it is.
0:06.3	You know, why would we introduce more chaos?
0:08.8	It's introducing controlled chaos to really drive reliability.
0:13.6	It was a lot of trial and error, a lot of iteration, a lot of talking to prospects and them being
0:17.5	like, cool, but it doesn't have X, Y, and Z, and I need those features.
0:21.2	So cool, great.
0:22.3	I'm going to go home and code those tonight.
0:24.2	We did some founder-led sales.
0:26.4	Colton and I both used to ride motorcycles, so we'd roll up to our initial customers on,
0:30.5	you know, like matching motorcycle jackets and be like, hey, you guys like chaos?
0:35.9	Great.
0:36.2	We got some chaos for you.
0:42.2	My name is Matthew Forneser, and I'm the CTO and co-founder of Bremen.
1:01.1	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:11.2	I'm your host, Noah Lapphart, and today how Matt Furnisseri built a way for your platform to handle a little chaos.
1:16.2	All this and more on Code Story.
1:24.1	Matt Fornisieri started his career at Amazon.
1:28.6	His first gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezos directly about what was working and not working, which he rightfully so, says,
1:33.8	was stressful. He spends a lot of time outdoors and mostly away from tech. He's so immersed
1:39.9	in tech during the day that in his free time he prefers to do analog activities and a lot of
1:45.0	activities that require motion. In fact, he claims that his career after tech will be something
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