Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a data center powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness—their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (Airbnb) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). One of Silicon Valley’s most provocative chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team, until he was forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, and eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world.
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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Author: Garcia Martinez, Antonio
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780062669797
Details:
Author: Garcia Martinez, Antonio
Brand: Harper
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Format: International Edition
Number Of Pages: 544
Release Date: 28-02-2017
Part Number: 45786345
Package Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780062669797
