Break Things on Purpose

Break Things on Purpose


Latest Episodes

Jason & Julie Take a Look Back
July 12, 2022

Today Jason and Julie catch up and reflect on their favorite moments from Season 3, including unpopular opinions, chaos engineering, make or break moments in engineers careers, and more.

Exploration and Resiliency with Mauricio Galdieri
June 28, 2022

Today Jason chats with Mauricio Galdieri, a staff engineer at Pismo. Mauricio describes his journey to becoming a developer, and then talks about his role at Pismo. Jason and Mauricio talk about relia

Developer Advocacy and Innersource with Aaron Clark
June 14, 2022

Today Jason chats with Aaron Clark, Director of Developer Advocacy at the Royal Bank of Canada. Aaron shares what it was like starting out as a developer at RBC and working in early cloud development,

KubeCon, Kindness, and Legos with Michael Chenetz
May 31, 2022

Today we chat with Ciscos head of developer content, community, and events, Michael Chenetz. We discuss everything from KubeCon to kindness and Legos!

Dan Isla: Astronomical Reliability
May 17, 2022

Were joined by Dan Isla, VP of Product at itopia, to talk about everything from astronomical importance of reliability to time zones on Mars.

Natalie Conklin: Embracing Change
May 03, 2022

Natalie Conklin, tamer of chaos and Head of Engineering here at Gremlin, joins us to talk about embracing change, working alongside each other, and building more reliable systems. Natalie has a talk c

JJ Tang: People, Process, Culture, Tools
April 19, 2022

For this episode were continuing to Build Things on Purpose with JJ Tang, co-founder of Rootly, who joins us to talk about incident response, the tool hes built, and his many lessons learned from

Elizabeth Lawler: Creating Maps for Code
April 05, 2022

For this episode of Build Things on Purpose we are joined by Elizabeth Lawler, founder of AppLand, the creators of AppMap. Elizabeth is here to chat about the challenges of building modern, complex

Chris Martello: Day of Darkness
March 22, 2022

Dad jokes lead the way in this episode as we interview Chris Martello, manager of application performance at Cengage. Chris is a wearer of many testing hats, but his passion is chaos and breaking thin

Alex Solomon & Kolton Andrus: Break it to the Limit
March 08, 2022

Time for a cross over! Today Page it to the Limit host Mandi Walls, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty joins Julie for a special two parter. They are interviewing Kolton Andrus, co-founder of Gremlin and Al