Introducing chaos engineering
Chaos engineering has its roots in things such as safety engineering in contexts such as aerospace engineering, where structures and components are tested to just before the point of failure.
Chaos engineering can be applied to various systems, including IT infrastructure, software systems, and business processes. It is typically performed by injecting simulated failures or “chaos” into the system and observing how it responds.
This allows engineers to identify and fix problems before they cause a real-world loss or outage.
Several different techniques can be used to perform chaos engineering, including the following:
- Randomly killing or failing processes or services
- Introducing network delays or packet loss
- Increasing or decreasing the system load
- Removing or adding resources
- Changing system configurations
A team of engineers usually conducts the process of chaos engineering, and it is often automated...
