Q&A: How to Build a Learning Culture with Debriefs
The PerimeterX R&D team works every day to ensure that each of our products are functioning around the clock to safeguard your digital business. PerimeterX Senior VP of R&D Amir Shaked joins us to give a behind-the-scenes look at how our internal culture helps bring our suite of solutions to life and keeps them evolving. Listen to the full podcast episode on your favorite streaming platform here.
Great to have you, Amir. Let’s talk about how the development team at PerimeterX functions, and how they tackle obstacles. First, let’s address the framework you use for this process. What do you mean by a culture of learning, or a learning culture?
Amir: When I say a “learning culture,” I mean instilling a healthy culture of debriefs and positive discussions that bring understanding out of difficult situations and ultimately minimize internal backfires.
Behind the scenes here at PerimeterX, we have a large-scale, cloud-based microservices environment, with over 15,000 cores and 300 microserves total. And like any production environment, we encounter challenges all the time. This is the essence of chaos engineering, and while a lot can be said on the technical aspects of randomly breaking things to find gaps, reality can always surprise you.
Every production system I’ve worked on has experienced issues — sometimes due to code changes, other times due to third-party providers having their entire infrastructure crash. These struggles are normal, and they lead us to constantly seek ways to learn and improve how we do things, how we protect the system, and how we provide the best service to our customers.
How would you describe the issues you’ve witnessed with production systems, and how you’ve learned from them? Let’s take it from the beginning of your time here at PerimeterX.
Amir: When I joined the company, I set (Read more...)
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