Oliver Leaver-Smith
Operations Manager · Data Tribe
Worked at Sky Betting & Gaming 2017–2022
Topics of expertise include OpenBSD, automation, chaos and resilience engineering, and Nerf warfare. He is also interested in security, networking, privacy, opensource, decentralisation and federation, hardware hacking, and cyberdecks.
Articles by Oliver
It's Just a Monitoring Change
Have you ever had a seemingly innocuous change to one system affect another in a catastrophic way? If yes, you might notice a few familiar themes in this write-up. If no, then read it now, before it’s too late.
Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments
When migrating services to shiny new cloud-native infrastructure, special care must be taken to ensure that releases that were zero-downtime continue to be so. When said service is the login system for your entire customer-facing product offering, a little extra effort is probably needed
Rising from the Ashes
We’ve always enjoyed running incident response drills, but they were becoming stale. This post covers how we addressed the problems with our fire drills and iterated upon them
Chaos + Resilience Community Day 2019
Our resident chaos monkey ols went to London for the first Chaos and Resilience Community Day held in Europe
Crash! Bang! Wallop! Practice makes perfect
Engineered Chaos, breaking production, and getting away with it. How the Core Tribe in Sky Betting and Gaming break stuff to make things better