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Chaos Engineering
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Chaos Engineering

by Mikolaj Pawlikowski
March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
12h 5m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Chaos Engineering

6 Who you gonna call? Syscall-busters!

This chapter covers

  • Observing syscalls of a running process by using strace and BPF
  • Working with black-box software
  • Designing chaos experiments at the syscall level
  • Blocking syscalls by using strace and seccomp

It’s time to take a deep dive—all the way to the OS—to learn how to do chaos engineering at the syscall level. I want to show you that even in a simple system, like a single process running on a host, you can create plenty of value by applying chaos engineering and learning just how resilient that system is to failure. And, oh, it’s good fun too!

This chapter starts with a brief refresher on syscalls. You’ll then see how to do the following:

  • Understand what a process does without looking at its ...

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