Chaos Engineering

front matter

foreword

As is often the case with new and technical areas, Chaos Engineering is a simple title for a rich and complex topic. Many of its principles and practices are counterintuitive—starting with its name—which makes it doubly challenging to explain. The early days of a new topic, however, are precisely the time when we need to find and distribute the easy-to-understand explanations.

I’m very pleased to say this book does exactly that.

An oft repeated scientific dictum is that “if you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t really understand it.” I can safely say to you that Mikolaj clearly understands chaos engineering because in these pages he explains its principles and practices with a simplicity and practical use that is uncommon ...