Published in The Cloud Architect·PinnedMember-onlyClimbing out of the ChasmUnleashing 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…Resilience21 min readResilience21 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·PinnedMember-onlyI deleted a production databaseAnd 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 Response14 min readIncident Response14 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·PinnedMember-onlyEmbracing failure is key to successBecoming 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…Growth14 min readGrowth14 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·PinnedMember-onlyEmpathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus onBecoming 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…Growth13 min readGrowth13 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·PinnedMember-onlyHow intuition makes us better engineersBecoming 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…Growth10 min readGrowth10 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·2 days agoMember-onlyThe AWS Fault Injection Simulator CollectionA 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 Engineering2 min readChaos Engineering2 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·4 days agoMember-onlyMonitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with DatadogTutorial — 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 Engineering12 min readChaos Engineering12 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·Mar 21Member-onlyBecoming a Better EngineerI 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…Growth2 min readGrowth2 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·Jan 25Member-onlyAWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hoodOriginally 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 Lambda8 min readAWS Lambda8 min read
Published in The Cloud Architect·Nov 16, 2022Member-onlySchedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection SimulatorChaos 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 Engineering7 min readChaos Engineering7 min read
