Sam Arbesman

Venture Partner, Lux Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sam Arbesman is a complexity scientist and Venture Partner at Lux Capital. He is the author of books including The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated, and serves as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University.

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Assertion Supported

Arbesman: Netflix uses Chaos Monkey to randomly disable live production subsystems

“Netflix, they have this chaos monkey suite of tools where the tool will periodically take subsystems out of commission and see how the overall system responds live. It'll just kind of knock out portions of Netflix and see how it responds. And the idea is to lo…”

Sam Arbesman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:55 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated

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What they said4 Episodes1

Everything Sam Arbesman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Arbesman: Large computing systems evolve like biological organisms, not engineered machines

“At the same time, though, these systems, they're not always Fully engineered. They're almost grown. And when they're evolved, and then like, then you often get the kind of all the terminology from evolution of kind of like evolved feature or repurposing some o…”

Sam Arbesman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:10 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated

Insight

Arbesman: Iterative hacks on large systems accumulate into impenetrable complexity

“When you have, when you're confronted with a large system, some large technological system, like a piece of software or whatever oftentimes the only way to change it is through those kind of kludges or hacks, because it's this kind of iterative tinkering at th…”

Sam Arbesman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:29 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated

Insight

Arbesman: Complex software requires biological thinking over high-level physics equations

“In this biological mindset is the idea that, that the details really matter. It's wonderful if you can write an equation that explains 60% of what's going on, but it turns out the remaining 40% Is really, really important when you're trying to make sure someth…”

Sam Arbesman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:45 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated

Assertion Supported

Arbesman: Netflix uses Chaos Monkey to randomly disable live production subsystems

Sam Arbesman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:55 a16z Podcast | It's Complicated

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| It's Complicated	Jan 2, 2019	6m

Sam Arbesman

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