Chaos Engineering: Why Breaking Things Should be Practiced

Hello guys,

Last week I went to the WebSummit 2018 Conference in Lisbon and I managed to join some of the AWS talks. The talk that I am posting today is about chaos engineering, which specifically address the uncertainty of distributed systems at scale. The aim of this practice is to uncover the system weakness and build confidence in the system’s capability. 

The harder it is to disrupt the steady state, the more confidence we have in the behavior of the system.  If a weakness is uncovered, we now have a target for improvement before that behavior manifests in the system at large.

Today I am going to post the video on the exact moment that this talk starts.

https://player.twitch.tv/?autoplay=false&t=02h05m17s&video=v333130731

This talk is presented by AWS Technical Evangelist Adrian Hornsby.

You can find tools to help you with the tests in this repo:

https://github.com/dastergon/awesome-chaos-engineering#notable-tools

 

References:

https://principlesofchaos.org/

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/333130731

Amazing repo with content/links about the topic: https://github.com/dastergon/awesome-chaos-engineering

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