Ensuring Reliability With A Startup That Uses Chaos Engineering with Matthew Fornaciari of Gremlin

Matthew Fornaciari, Co-Founder and CTO at Gremlin Inc., shares his startup journey along with nuggets of information he picked up along the way. Forni has built a company that proactively improves reliability through chaos engineering.

Chaos engineering injects controlled chaos into an environment to test it. It looks at the four signals of uptime to keep it going: latency, error rate, availability, and saturation. It’s the practical, software version of failing fast and learning from mistakes — only before it happens.

Forni thinks that tech founders shouldn’t focus just on the product. There are so many various aspects in the business that need to be tight for it to succeed. Sales, marketing, and operations are other functions that need focus for the entire company to succeed. He also recommends that founders find high-caliber executives and leaders as soon as possible. He acknowledges that nothing can replace experience, and a founder can save so much time when they have top-notch talent.

Forni talks about the importance of establishing culture from the start. Their foremost core culture is customer focus, and the entire Gremlin team lives and breathes this. Forni thinks you should align your product after the customer’s experience. It’s essential not to stop until the customer is feeling great about your product and their experience with it. 

Forni shares every phase of his tech startup and dishes out some amazing lessons. Founders who take heed can accelerate their startup with what they learn in this episode. 

• Website - https://www.gremlin.com
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattforni/
• Github - https://github.com/mattforni
• Hiring Page - https://www.gremlin.com/careers

 

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