User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation
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Carissa Blossom walks through the monitoring service that Uber developed to identify issues in production, and how they leveraged composable integration tests to cut the time to mitigation in half.
Carissa Blossom is a member of the Production Engineering team for Eats & Delivery at Uber. She is also an Incident Commander for Ring0, Uber Engineering’s primary task force for critical outage mitigation. In her four years at Uber, she has served as Production Engineer for Eats, Software Networking Edge and Marketplace.
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Blossom: I'm going to talk about user simulation for rapid outage mitigation. My name is Carissa Blossom. I have been an infrastructure engineer at Uber for over four years, working primarily in the SRE and production reliability space. For more than two years, I have been a commander for Uber's elite outage mitigation volunteer squad. I'm currently working to scale Uber Eats reliably.
