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Crossing 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 improvements
5 — Repeat
And we do that to prove or disprove our assumptions about our system’s capability to handle these stresses — or disruptive events.
Chaos engineering helps us improve our application’s resilience and performance by uncovering hidden issues and exposing monitoring, observability, and alarm blind spots.
More importantly, chaos engineering gives organizations a platform to practice and excellent operational skills critical to improving recovery time from failures.
Time to recovery is especially critical, and the latest estimations from IDC and the Ponemon Institute are the…
