Chaos Engineering Basics

Summary

Deliberately injecting failures into a system (killing a server, adding network latency) in a controlled way to verify it actually handles failure gracefully, rather than assuming it does.

• 1Read about Netflix's Chaos Monkey as the origin case study for this practice.
• 2Learn why testing failure handling deliberately, in a controlled way, beats discovering it during a real outage.
• 3Understand chaos engineering requires strong monitoring (Phase 11) first, to observe the effects safely.