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Climbing out of the Chasm

Unleashing the Potential of Chaos Engineering — Maturity Comes With Experience, Not Age. Before diving in, I want to set the stage and briefly explain chaos engineering. At its core, chaos engineering is the process of: 1 — Making a hypothesis about a particular system 2 — Stressing it 3 —Observing how it responds 4 — Making…

Resilience

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Climbing out of the Chasm
Climbing out of the Chasm
Resilience

21 min read


Published in The Cloud Architect

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I deleted a production database

And learned a few things along the way — It happened more than a decade ago. While I might have forgotten some technical details, I remember how I felt like it was yesterday. “I am done. It is the end, and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted…

Incident Response

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I deleted a production database
I deleted a production database
Incident Response

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Embracing failure is key to success

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3 — “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill I deleted a database in production “I am done. It is the end and I will be fired now.” These were the words I kept repeating to myself. I had just deleted a production database critical to our customers…

Growth

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Embracing failure is key to success
Embracing failure is key to success
Growth

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Empathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus on

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2 — “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks”. — John Muir In part 1 of this series, I talked about intuition and how it can help engineers improve their performance. In this part 2, I will talk about another soft skill critical for engineers— empathy. How it all started I…

Growth

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Empathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus on
Empathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus on
Growth

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Published in The Cloud Architect

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How intuition makes us better engineers

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1 — The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein How it all started The realization that intuition was going to be important happened approximately 15 years ago. Cloud computing was still…

Growth

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How intuition makes us better engineers
How intuition makes us better engineers
Growth

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Published in The Cloud Architect

·2 days ago

The AWS Fault Injection Simulator Collection

A list of my blog posts related to AWS Fault Injection Simulator — AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS that makes it easier to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Supported actions are listed here — but more will follow. Following are the different blogs that dive deep into using…

Chaos Engineering

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The AWS Fault Injection Simulator Collection
The AWS Fault Injection Simulator Collection
Chaos Engineering

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Published in The Cloud Architect

·4 days ago

Monitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with Datadog

Tutorial — Using Datadog Alarms with Amazon EventBridge to Safely Monitor AWS Fault Injection Simulator Experiments — Many businesses and organizations adopt cloud computing as a key aspect of their technology strategy. While most applications can be migrated easily, some need modernization before they can be moved to the cloud. There are also applications that must remain on-premises due to extreme low-latency requirements, and data sovereignty or…

Chaos Engineering

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Monitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with Datadog
Monitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with Datadog
Chaos Engineering

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Published in The Cloud Architect

·Mar 21

Becoming a Better Engineer

I have been working in the IT industry for a little over two decades and while a lot has changed since I started, few things haven’t, including Technology and People. Of course, technologies have changed. But Technology, with a capital T, hasn’t. If anything, it has become more pervasive. Most…

Growth

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Becoming a Better Engineer
Becoming a Better Engineer
Growth

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Published in The Cloud Architect

·Jan 25

AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood

Originally published in AWS Compute Blog This post is written by Adrian Hornsby (Principal System Dev Engineer) and Marcia Villalba (Principal Developer Advocate). AWS Lambda comprises over 80 services working together to provide the serverless compute service that it offers to customers. Under the hood, many of these services are…

AWS Lambda

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AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
AWS Lambda

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Published in The Cloud Architect

·Nov 16, 2022

Schedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Chaos Engineering on AWS — Running chaos experiments periodically can be very useful, especially if you want to ensure that your application’s resilience isn’t regressing as your application evolves. Until recently, customers had to use their own tools or built their own scheduling capabilities. This added complexity, slowed application development, and increased costs. This is…

Chaos Engineering

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Schedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Schedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Chaos Engineering

7 min read

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Adrian Hornsby

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Principal System Dev Engineer @ AWS ☁️ I break stuff .. mostly. Opinions here are my own.

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