Chaos Engineering

Preface

Chaos Engineering has taken off. Thousands of companies of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, have adopted Chaos Engineering as a core practice to make their products and services safer and more reliable. Many resources exist on the topic, particularly conference talks, but none of these paint an entire picture.

Nora and Casey set out to write the most complete book on Chaos Engineering. This was no small task, given the breadth of implementations across the industry and the evolving nature of the discipline. In this book we attempt to capture the history behind Chaos Engineering, the fundamental theories that ground it, the definitions and principles, implementations across the software industry, examples from beyond traditional software, and the future of where we see practices like this going.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions.

Constant width

Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

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