“We go through our Kubernetes clusters and we’re killing nodes every 2 minutes in production constantly.”

At Google Cloud Next, I hosted a fireside chat with David Faircloth (VP of Architecture and Engineering at Wendy’s) about how Wendy’s scaled to 99.95% availability in five years.

Wendy’s built their way there by designing systems to fail gracefully. Observability is what made that strategy visible, and chaos engineering is what proved it out in production.

Watch the recording here: youtu.be/UQmFnkZHF…

Talk title "How Wendy's got to 99.95% availability (and how you can too)" in large black text on the left. Top right: photo of Whitney Lee, a woman with reddish-brown hair smiling in a blue top against a colorful lit background. Bottom right: black-and-white headshot of David Faircloth, a man with short hair smiling in a suit jacket. Bottom left: Google Cloud Next 26 logo. White background with decorative geometric shapes and a blue wave design.