Production Environment Problems

Learn about chaos engineering and its principles, and also about the problems that appear in the production environment.

What is chaos engineering?

Imagine a conversation that starts like this:

“Hey boss, I’m going to log into production and shut down a few instances of the system. Just a few here and there. Shouldn’t hurt anything,” you say.

How do you think the rest of that conversation will go? Normally, not well! Killing instances turns out to be a radical idea, but not a crazy one. It’s one technique in an emerging discipline called chaos engineering. ...