Break Things on Purpose

Break Things on Purpose


Latest Episodes

Carissa Morrow: Learning to be Resilient
February 22, 2022

Being new in tech can be intimidating! Thankfully, folks like Carissa Morrow are shining examples of how to come into tech from the ground up. Carissa began with a career shift and just started coding

Gunnar Grosch: From User to Hero to Advocate
February 08, 2022

Reliability and serverless are at the forefront of today’s conversation. For this episode Gunnar Grosch, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, is here to talk about Chaos Engineering, AWS Serverless, and

Sam Rossoff: Data Centers Inside Data Centers
January 25, 2022

For this round Julie and Jason are joined by Gremlin’s own Sam Rossoff, who works over here as a Principal Software Engineer. But his accolades extend well beyond Gremlin, Sam is also a grand Pokémon

Unpopular Opinions
January 11, 2022

Time for a bit of a review! Join Jason as he looks back on some previous guests who have shared some opinions that range from the idiosyncratic to down right unpopular. Pulling from a handful of “Brea

2021 Year in Review
December 28, 2021

For this episode your hosts, Jason Yee and Julie Gunderson, are sitting down for a year in review! With the new year just around the corner, lets take a glance back at a year of chaos...engineering th

Mandi Walls
December 14, 2021

Take a trip down memory lane with Mandi Walls, to chat about the many changes over the years in chaos engineering and other ares of tech. We’ve also got the new addition to Gremlin’s Developer Advocac

Itiel Shwartz
November 30, 2021

Welcome back to another iteration of “Build Things on Purpose” where we talk with developers and engineers who are creating tools that help us build more reliable systems. Today Itiel Shwartz, CTO and

Tomas Fedor
November 16, 2021

Tomas Fedor, Head of Infrastructure at Productboard, is here to talk about his personal passions and professional perfections. Tomas takes us through some of his biggest adaptations he had to make whe

Gustavo Franco
November 03, 2021

Jason is joined by Gustavo Franco, Senior Engineering Manager at VMWare, to chat about chaos in the Gustavo’s early days. Gustavo reflects on Googles early disaster recovery practices, to the contempo

Leonardo Murillo
October 19, 2021

Sit down with Ana and Jason for this weeks show with Leonardo (Leo) Murillo, principal partner solutions architect at Weaveworks, and former DJ, who joins us this week from Costa Rica. Leo shares his