Learning Chaos Engineering: Discovering and Overcoming System Weaknesses Through Experimentation

by Russ Miles

Most companies work hard to avoid costly failures, but in complex systems a better approach is to embrace and learn from them. Through chaos engineering, you can proactively hunt for evidence of system weaknesses before they trigger a crisis. This practical book shows software developers and system administrators how to plan and run successful chaos engineering experiments.

System weaknesses go beyond your infrastructure, platforms, and applications to include policies, practices, playbooks, and people. Author Russ Miles explains why, when, and how to test systems, processes, and team responses using simulated failures on Game Days. You’ll also learn how to work toward continuous chaos through automation with features you can share across your team and organization.

Learn to think like a chaos engineer
Build a hypothesis backlog to determine what could go wrong in your system
Develop your hypotheses into chaos engineering experiment Game Days
Write, run, and learn from automated chaos experiments using the open source Chaos Toolkit
Turn chaos experiments into tests to confirm that you’ve overcome the weaknesses you discovered
Observe and control your automated chaos experiments while they are running

Genres: Technology, Computer Science

175 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2019

Reviews

[Alin Dobre · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's basically a presentation of what chaos engineering is, and then a presentation of the chaos toolkit.

[Abhilash Gopalakrishnan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to get started with Chaos Engineering. Russ makes it very live and simple and introduces us with help of open source tools. Interesting fact is that this is based on hypothesis based approaches. During this time I was discussing with Amazon for a role in a team for Customer Reliability. The significance of the subject is increasing as Software moves closer to reliability as a major consideration.