Wrapping Up

Chaos engineering starts with paradoxes. Stable systems become fragile. Dependencies creep in and failure modes proliferate whenever you turn your back on the software. We need to break things—regularly and in a semicontrolled way—to make the software and the people who build it more resilient.

Footnotes

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http://principlesofchaos.org

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https://www.kitchensoap.com/2011/04/07/resilience-engineering-part-i

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http://netflix.github.io

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https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/fit-failure-injection-testing-35d8e2a9bb2

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https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chap-chaos-automation-platform-53e6d528371f

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