Cloud-native chaos engineering

In today’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Uma, CEO and co-founder of ChaosNative, as well as Karthik, CTO and also a ChaosNative co-founder. They talk Chaos Engineering and Litmus. Chaos Engineering is not just for super SREs. It is not meant to prevent outages. And, it is not just about hardware. Chaos Engineering is about testing how reliable your systems are. It’s meant to show you how things fail, including when other dependent systems fail - think cascading failures. This is a good way to discover inconvenient truths about that beautiful code that you wrote. Everything fails, and great insights are to be found when it does.

In today’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Uma, CEO and co-founder of ChaosNative, as well as Karthik, CTO and also a ChaosNative co-founder. They talk Chaos Engineering and Litmus.

Chaos Engineering is not just for super SREs. It is not meant to prevent outages. And, it is not just about hardware. Chaos Engineering is about testing how reliable your systems are. It’s meant to show you how things fail, including when other dependent systems fail - think cascading failures. This is a good way to discover inconvenient truths about that beautiful code that you wrote. Everything fails, and great insights are to be found when it does.

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Featuring:

Uma Mukkara – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteKarthik Satchitanand – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInGerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Defining Chaos Engineering & Its Principles - 7 mins read
Principles of Cloud Native Chaos Engineering - 10 mins read
Litmus - Chaos Engineering for your Kubernetes
🎬 SLOconf: Benchmarking SLOs using Chaos Engineering - Uma Mukkara
🎬 Putting Chaos into CD to Increase App Resiliency - Juergen Etzlstorfer & Karthik Satchitanand
Chaos Carnival 2021
🎬 ChaosCarnival Day 1 Keynote - Adrian Cockcroft

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