A Look Behind the Curtains of Silicon Valley Tech
b'Show #134 | Guest: Author Antonio Garcia Mart\\xednez is a former Facebook executive, and also previously CEO of Adgrok, which he sold to Twitter, and a former strategist at Goldman Sachs. Chaos Monkeys:Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley is his first book. | Show Summary: Technology veteran and now author, Antonio Garc\\xeda Mart\\xednez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkey. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this \\u201cchaos monkey\\u201d to test online services\\u2019 robustness\\u2014their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society\\u2019s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder).'