Seth Eliot
Principal Developer Advocate, AWS
Seattle, Washington, United States
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As a Principal Developer Advocate with AWS, Seth helps builders to architect and implement resilient, scalable systems in the cloud. He draws on over 12 years of experience in multiple engineering roles across Amazon. Previously he was Reliability Lead for AWS Well-Architected. Before that, as Principal Solutions Architect he worked hands-on with amazon.com engineers to optimize how they use AWS for the services that power the massive scale systems behind amazon.com. Prior to that, he was Principal Engineer for Amazon Fresh and International Technologies. Seth joined Amazon in 2005 where soon after, he helped develop the technology that would become Prime Video. You can follow Seth on twitter @setheliot, or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/setheliot/.
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Resiliency testing in the Cloud: Verifying your system is as reliable as you think
In this workshop, you will learn hands-on how to setup failure injection testing (also known as chaos testing) you can use to ensure the resiliency of your service. We will supply you with an AWS account and the tools to setup a three tier architecture. Then you are guided how to implement automation to simulate various failures from loss of a single Amazon EC2 server to loss of an entire Availability Zone. We will focus on the impacts of these failures and the resources AWS provides to maintain high service availability and short time to recovery.
DevOps in the Cloud: Case Studies of Amazon.com teams and their resilient architectures
Join Seth, an experienced Amazon technologist with over 12 years of experience working on the company's highly scalable systems, as he takes you on a journey through the unique DevOps culture at the online retailer Amazon.com. Discover the secrets behind the company's successful customer experience, and learn how "two-pizza teams" foster accountability and ownership in the systems they create and run in the cloud. Seth has worked with multiple of these teams, helping them incorporate best practices for building resilient workloads, and will share their technology and processes for running services in the cloud with you. Dive into real-world examples of Amazon's systems, such as how the search team uses chaos engineering to be ready for Prime Day, any day, and how transportation uses resilience best practices to keep the trucks rolling, Gain insights into the resilience strategies that Amazon employs, including chaos engineering, automated deployment, and multi-site architectures. Leave with practical, actionable techniques and approaches that you can apply to your own strategy for building resilient systems that can handle any challenge.
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Seth Eliot
Principal Developer Advocate, AWS
Seattle, Washington, United States
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