January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 34m
English
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Antecedents of Chaos Engineering
Chaos engineering draws from many other fields related to safety, reliability, and control, such as cybernetics, complex adaptive systems, and the study of high-reliability organizations. In particular, the multidisciplinary field of resilience engineering offers a rich area to explore for new directions in chaos.[94]
In Drift into Failure [Sid11] Sidney Dekker, one of the pioneers in resilience engineering, talks about “drift” as a phenomenon. A system exists in a realm with three key boundaries, as shown in the figure. (In this context, when Dekker talks about systems, he means the whole collection of people, ...