Russ Miles
Russ Miles is CEO and co-founder of Reliably, where he and his team build products and services that help developers build and run reliable systems. Russ is co-founder of the free and open source Chaos Toolkit project, and is also an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, "Learning Chaos Engineering" by O'Reilly Media explores how to build trust and confidence in modern, complex systems by applying chaos engineering to surface evidence of system weaknesses before they affect your users.
Russ Miles is on a mission, as an Author, Speaker and Engineering Manager, to help people thrive in one of the harshest, and potentially impactful, working environments: software system engineering.
Through his books, mentorship, open source contributions, talks, courses and his daily work, Russ tries to help people that are responsible for building and running some of today's most critical software-based systems to develop their own personal resilience, empathy, EQ and grit to flourish at work and in their lives.
Russ can be reached in email at russ@russmiles.com, on Linkedin, and on Twitter.
- Reliably
- Chaos Toolkit
- Learning Chaos Engineering by Russ Miles
Talks I've Given
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Workshop: From Failures to Hypotheses, Examples to Evidence
Featuring Russ Miles and Jenny Martin
Join Russ and Jenny for this collaborative session, exploring example driven operational testing and chaos engineering. Use real world examples and failure modes to vividly imagine how things could go wrong in your production environments, and generate hypotheses and experiments to help explore...
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Keynote: Learning To Be Successful at “Being Wrong”™ In The Cloud
Featuring Russ Miles
In this keynote, Russ Miles, CEO of ChaosIQ, will explore how you can turn the turbulence of cloud native systems into a super power for your organisation. Touring a collection of chaos experiments, Russ will show how you and why chaos engineering is a key deliberate practice for learning how to...
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Chaos and Resilience Engineering Meetup Re-boot
Featuring Russ Miles
It's been a while and so it's about time that we re-booted the London Chaos and Resilience Engineering community meetup.
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Keynote: How to be WRONG with Microservices, and still WIN
Featuring Russ Miles
Being wrong is often seen as the WORSE THING THAT CAN HAPPEN(tm), especially when you’re building business critical applications and services. But the increased velocity of modern software development, as enabled with continuous delivery and a micro services architectural style, plus the...
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From Zero to Chaos Engineering
Featuring Russ Miles
London Chaos Engineering Community is back! Russ Miles returns to CodeNode for another event to teach us more about Chaos Engineering. Don't miss it!
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Chaos Engineering In Practice - Demos, Demos, and more Demos
Featuring Russ Miles
Last meetup before the holidays and we thought it might be nice to show off some technologies and demonstrations of doing chaos engineering "in the wild". Join in with London Chaos Engineering!
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Keynote: Hello Microservice, Production hates you.
Featuring Russ Miles
Production hates you. The machines, the networks, the very users you hope to provide a service hate you. This is reality, and it makes production a hostile battle ground. In this talk Russ Miles will talk about how to turn this pain to your advantages. Following on from his popular “Why don’t we...
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Initial Meet & Greet Chaos Meetup in London
Featuring Russ Miles
Join Russ Miles for the inaugural meetup for London Chaos Engineering Community! Don't miss it.
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Microservices through Development Automation with Atomist by Russ Miles
Featuring Russ Miles
As developers, the better and faster we are the more we tend to automate. We automate other work, and sometimes we automate our own. Come and join Russ to discover how Atomist can be used to program your microservices!
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Architecting & Designing for Change, Events-First
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles, Lead Engineer at Atomist and Founder of Russ Miles & Associates, will walk through how to design a software systems that evolves, and even thrives, on change itself. With practical DDD examples, and the assistance of Atomist, Russ will show the evolution of a system...
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London Atomist Rug User Group February meetup!
Featuring Russ Miles
Are you interested in coding along with like minded developers using brand new technology? Join the London Atomist Rug User Group!
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Inaugural Rug Hack Session
Featuring Russ Miles
Are you interested in coding along with like minded developers using brand new technology? Join this first ever meetup on Atomist Rug in the UK (and, as far as we can tell, anywhere!)
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Keynote: Making Sense of Microservices: Maximizing Development Productivity and Minimizing Mistakes
Featuring Sylvain Hellegouarch and Russ Miles
Speed and Adaptability; micro services promise so much!
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Keynote: Lies, Damn Lies and Consulting Lies - The Path to World Domination through Microservices
Featuring Russ Miles
In this epic, life transforming, talk, Chief Principal Senior Consultant Scientist from Global Enterprise Consultancy ThoughtFlixPivot(tm), will expose the industries best kept secrets on what we now know to be the one true way to a successful Microservices project.
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Keynote: Lies, Damn Lies and Consulting Lies - The Path to World Domination through Microservices
Featuring Russ Miles
In this epic, life transforming, talk, Chief Principal Senior Consultant Scientist from Global Enterprise Consultancy ThoughtFlixPivot(tm), will expose the industries best kept secrets on what we now know to be the one true way to a successful Microservices project.
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Entity, Flow, Testing, Deployment - What should be in my Microservice?
Featuring David Dawson and Russ Miles
You're sold on the idea of Microservices, you've got your devops culture, your automation, deployment, management buy in. Then someone asks the question, that awful, awful question ...
"What should be in my microservice?"
This talk will give you the tools to understand this...
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Microservices Part 2: Getting to Microservices, the Journey
Featuring Russ Miles
Join Russ Miles for his "Microservices Part 2: Getting to Microservices, the Journey" talk for the next Sky CIS Tech Futures Technology event. In this session Russ will take you through the journey of how Microservices began and has now evolved.
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Microservices for Speed
Featuring Russ Miles
Speed. It’s all about speed. Of delivery, of innovation, of the competition… In an age of commodity and on-demand cloud infrastructure and platforms the safe haven of being a large incumbent business that relies on technology is shrinking rapidly. To compete we need to adapt, and fast. And our...
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Keynote: On the Origin of Services by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Features in the Struggle for Life
Featuring Russ Miles
We’ve spent over a decade now becoming more and more agile and adaptable in our ways of working. Unfortunately our software is now struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation that is increasingly being demanded by modern businesses.
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Innovate, Compete, or Die: How and Why Spring is meeting the latest design and architectural challenges
Featuring Russ Miles
Speed. It’s all about speed. Of delivery, of innovation, of the competition… In an age of commodity and on-demand cloud infrastructure and platforms the safe haven of being a large incumbent business that relies on technology is shrinking rapidly.
To compete we need to adapt, and fast. And our...
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Why Microservices need a Full Stack
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk, Russ Miles of Simplicity Itself and Gawain Hammond of Sky TV will walk through a full, real-world system evolution from original monolithic designs to microservices explaining why important decisions were supported, even enabled, by using Node, JavaScript and ClojureScript.
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Separating Fact from Fiction: What do Microservices really look like?
Featuring Russ Miles
Want to deep dive into the world of Microservices? Cut through the theory and join Russ Miles, Chief Scientist at Simplicity Itself, as we walk through the real advantages and disadvantages of microservices using a real-world application as the backdrop for discussing the different techniques...
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An Introduction to Designing and Building Antifragile Microservices with Java
Featuring Russ Miles
Ever wondered how teams attempt to embrace change and how their software copes? Russ Miles will talk about his experiences within teams as they attempt to embrace change and find, to their dismay, that their software itself can’t keep up.
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Bringing Sanity to Agility: Life Preservation for Agile Software
Featuring Russ Miles
Russ will talk about his experiences within teams as they attempt to embrace change and find, to their dismay, that their software itself can’t keep up.
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Enabling Adaptable Software: Scaling up a simple Event Domain
Featuring Russ Miles
Want to learn how to design your software so that it can adapt to future change effectively? In this talk Russ Miles will showcase how to gradually increase essential complexity in your event domain by de-coupling and disentangling different domains within your application.
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Adaptable Software with Spring
Featuring Russ Miles
Change is constant in evolving a software solution, and your assumptions in design and architecture yesterday can be the bane of your life today… It doesn't have to be like that.
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Why unit test, and where?! - Getting the Testing Balance right
Featuring Russ Miles
Getting the Testing Balance right, It sounds like a no-brainer, right? Everyone has unit testing nailed, umm, right…? In this talk, Russ Miles of Simplicity Itself takes things back to basics to examine why many still do not unit test and, even worse, use unit testing in extremely unproductive...
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Simply Implementing Hexagonal Architectures with the Life Preserver and Spring
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles will share his practical experiences using these tools to build simple designs and components using Spring to build 'Simple Supple Software'
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Clojure and Other Friends - Promiscuous LISPing towards Simplicity
Featuring Russ Miles
Functional languages, with the right practices and preference, can result in simple solutions, but they're not the only ones having all the fun!
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Teams present their code
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
The teams present their code to the room.
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Tools for saving Millions by Applying Simplicity to your Software Development
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
Join Russ Miles, Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself for this free one-day workshop on Practical Simplicity: Tools for saving Millions by Applying Simplicity to your Software Development!
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Drone Flight 101
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
Russ Miles and the Skills Matter team have some fun with the Drone. Watch from the Drone's on-board camera captures the event!
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Closing Remarks
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
The day draws to a close and Russ Miles gives his closing notes and thank yous.
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Rescuing the PaaS with Simplicity
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
In this talk, David Dawson and Russ Miles of Simplicity Itself will show how to design Cloud-friendly, simple components, services and applications that can deliver on the promises that have loosely been collated around the term PaaS, without the need for an actual PaaS...
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From Patterns to Code: Coding Simple Event-Driven Components for Agile Software
Featuring Russ Miles and David Dawson
With real-world samples in a variety of languages, this session will share practical, hands-on coding tips and tricks to help you turn the vision of loosely-coupled, simple components woven together with events into real code in your applications.
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Fighting for Simplicity with Spring
Featuring Russ Miles
Join the London Spring User Group for talks revolving around the Spring Framework. In this talk Russ Miles, principle consultant at Simplicity Itself, will explain the best practices that focus on simplifying Spring usage in a number of domains.
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Architectural Simplicity through Events: A war story of managing the challenge of integration and flexibility
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles, principal consultant with Simplicity Itself, will share the story of how he helped architect, design and implement a flexible and highly integrated real-world solution that was drastically simplified by using events.
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Rich Client Applications with Spring and AngularJS
Featuring Rob Harrop and Russ Miles
AngularJS is a modern, sophisticated JavaScript framework for building rich HTML applications. This talk provides an introduction to AngularJS architecture, demonstrates how to test client-side code and details how to integrate front-end logic with Spring-powered REST controllers.
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Interview with Russ Miles
Featuring Russ Miles
Are you interested in Spring and Spring Integration? Want to hear what Russ Miles has been up to?
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A tour through the jungles of Spring Integration 2.2.0
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk, Russ Miles, Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself and our resident expert in all things Spring, will take a tour through the new features of Spring Integration 2.2.0 as well as covering some real-world integration patterns in action.
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Cloud Foundry
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles will talk through his experiences using CloudFoundry both as a regular cloud PaaS, hosted by VMware at CloudFoundry.com, and using CloudFoundry locally as a multi-runtime, scalable platform for building in-house applications.
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Where are my messages!? An introduction to Complex Event Processing
Featuring Russ Miles
Russ Miles will give an introduction to Complex Event Processing.
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Getting Architecturally Agile with Event Driven Architectures
Featuring Russ Miles
In this session Russ Miles will show how to get Architecturally Agile with Event Driven Architectures.
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Thinking Specific with DSLs
Featuring Russ Miles and Tareq Abedrabbo
In this talk, Russ Miles and Tareq Abedrabbo (co-creators of the new Deep Dive DSLs with Groovy course) will show how they apply DSL principles and practices effectively in order to build and evaluate real world DSLs to write the cleanest, expressive and most productive code possible for a given...
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Get the message? Grails Integration Patterns with Event Driven Messaging
Featuring Russ Miles
Grails and Groovy applications don't live in a vacuum, and nowhere is this more apparent in enterprise software. In this talk, Russ Miles will demonstrate a collection of common enterprise integration patterns and how they can be implemented effectively, easily and fluently in Grails.
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Enabling Choice in the Cloud
Featuring Russ Miles
In an ideal world, every application could be deployed to any cloud. You could compare the SLAs and associated costs at deployment time, make your choice of which cloud services you grab from which vendor, and boom! have your app up and running. However there's nothing ideal in the current...
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Enabling Choice, Enabling the Market
Featuring Russ Miles
a look at the key blockers to the emerging cloud market and how the fole of cloud brokers is essential to making the open cloud market a reality. Through vendor lock-in to commodities vs. exotics a look at the signifcant parallels the cloud market has with todays financial system, and how you...
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Creating easy and secure SOAPful Web Services
Featuring Tareq Abedrabbo and Russ Miles
In this talk, Tareq and Russ explain how the Spring-WS Grails plugin makes creating contract-first, document oriented web services super-easy by bringing together the power and flexibility of the Spring-WS framework and Grails.
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ParkBench Panel Discussion with Pizza & Drinks
Featuring Russ Miles
After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion of the conference, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference. Ask your questions to the speakers of the afternoon's...
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Deploy in 60 seconds (umm, minutes)...
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles, MD of OpenCredo and Cloud Community Lead with Skills Matter, will show how the usage of Amazon Web Services can be simplified by applying the latest tools and techniques so that you can focus on what you know best.
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Cloud Foundry
Featuring Greg Southey and Russ Miles
Greg Southey of SpringSource will explain how Cloud Foundry will become an important element in SpringSource’s ‘Cloud Strategy’ and Russ Miles of OpenCredo will demonstrate how he has been using the technology.
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Grails eye for the Spring guy
Featuring Russ Miles
Grails is a next generation, dynamic web and high productivity web application development environment. In this tongue-in-cheek talk, Russ will take us through developing highly interactive web applications
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Grails eye for the Spring guy
Featuring Russ Miles
Grails is a next generation, dynamic web and high productivity web application development environment. In this tongue-in-cheek talk, Russ Miles will take us through developing highly interactive web applications using Grails
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When Spring Projects met Grails - Bringing Killer New Features to Grails with Grails Plugins
Featuring Russ Miles
This talk by Russ Miles, Senior Consultant at SpringSource, takes a deep dive through how to bring the Spring projects that you already know into the Grails plugin ecosystem, developing killer productivity enhancing
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Spring for .NET - Making Best Practices Easy Practices
Featuring Russ Miles
Russ Miles, SpringSource senior consultant and author of Head First Software Development, will talk through some of the best practices that Spring for .NET helps open source .NET developers to apply.
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A Deep Dive Through Web Applications with Spring.NET
Featuring Russ Miles
In this "In-the-brain" talk, Russ Miles will show how to take full advantage of Spring.NET while developing .NET web applications.
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Introductions to Spring .Net and Spring Extensions
Featuring Russ Miles
In this talk Russ Miles will take a deep dive into building real-world web applications using Asp.NET and Spring.NET. Heavily code orientated, Spring.NET will be demonstrated as a set of tools that plug the gaps in your full Asp.NET toolbox.
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Spring .Net and Spring Extensions
Featuring Russ Miles and Gordon Weir
Russ Miles will talk on Spring .NET
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Director of Chaos (Engineering) at ChaosIQ.io
Russ Miles is CEO of ChaosIQ.io where he and his team build commercial and open source (ChaosToolkit.org) products and provide services to companies applying Chaos Engineering to build confidence in their Cloud Native, Microservice-based systems on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and more.
Russ is an international speaker and author, most recently having published “Antifragile Software: Building Adaptable Software with Microservices” where he explores how to apply Chaos Engineering to construct and manage complex, distributed systems in production with confidence.