Steve Upton

Building a culture from chaos

The greatest benefit of chaos engineering isn't technical resilience. It's fostering a culture that is prepared for the inherent uncertainty of complex systems.

Building a culture from chaos
#1about 6 minutes

The origin of chaos engineering at Netflix

Netflix created chaos engineering to validate their principle of having no single points of failure during their microservices transformation.

#2about 4 minutes

Understanding the core loop of chaos engineering

Chaos engineering is a disciplined cycle of inducing failures, learning from them, and improving system resilience to build confidence in production.

#3about 4 minutes

Defining the characteristics of complex systems

Complex systems are characterized by a high degree of multiplicity, interdependence, and diversity among their elements and connections.

#4about 7 minutes

The unpredictable behavior of complex adaptive systems

Complex adaptive systems are fundamentally unpredictable because they adapt over time and produce unintended consequences, making past solutions unreliable.

#5about 7 minutes

Adopting new approaches for complex systems

Traditional planning methods like "big design up front" are ineffective for complex systems, requiring agile approaches that prioritize responding to change and accepting failure.

#6about 4 minutes

Building a resilient culture through consistent habits

Culture is shaped by repeated actions, not just stated values, and chaos engineering provides a practical habit for validating plans and embracing failure.

#7about 7 minutes

How to design safe and effective chaos experiments

Designing effective chaos experiments requires careful target selection, limiting the blast radius, robust monitoring, and automated rollbacks to ensure they are safe to fail.

#8about 4 minutes

The second-order effects of chaos engineering on culture

Beyond improving system resilience, chaos engineering's second-order effect is building a culture and skillset for navigating complex systems.

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