Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley

Book On CD 2016

"Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data center powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this "chaos monkey" to test online services' robustness--their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society's chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (Air...

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ISBN:

9781504733786

Edition:

Unabridged

Description:

12 audio discs (15.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
audio file CD audio
4 3/4 in

Notes:

Compact discs
Read by Dan John Miller

Contents:

Part One: Disturbing the peace
The undertakers of capitalism
The human attention exchange
Knowing how to swim
Abandoning the shipwreck
Part Two: Pseudorandomness
Let me see your war face
Like marriage, but without the fucking
Speed is a feature
D-Day
A conclave of angels
The hill of sand
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
¡No pasarán!
The dog shit sandwich
Victory
Launching!
Dates @Twitter
Acquisition chicken
Getting liked
Getting poked
The various futures of the forking paths
Retweets are not endorsements
The dotted line
Endgame
Part Three: Move fast and break things
Boot camp
Product masseur
Google delenda est
Leaping headlong
One shot, one kill
Twice bitten, thrice shy
Ads five-oh
The narcissism of privacy
Are we savages or what?
O Death
The barbaric yawn
Going public
When the flying saucers fail to appear
Monetizing the tumor
The great awakening
Barbarians at the gates
IPA > IPO
Initial public offering: a reevaluation
Flash boys
Full frontal Facebook
Microsoft shrugged
Ad majorem Facebook gloriam
Adiós, Facebook
Pandemonium lost

Control Number:

2522650

Other Authors:

Miller, Dan John, narrator

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