Uma: I think the most important point that resonates with me that you've made CARTIC is around the different platforms, having different recovery times. So then how do you know how does it behave in your case? Well, one solution would be to maybe apply litmus chaos and see how it behaves in practice. Things improve most of the time, but sometimes they get worse. Uma: As much as we want to be confident from our staging experiments, the best failures happen in production. But always remember that unless you are breaking things confidently, your systems are not reliable.
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In today’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Uma, CEO and co-founder of ChaosNative, as well as Karthik, CTO and also a ChaosNative co-founder. They talk Chaos Engineering and Litmus.
Chaos Engineering is not just for super SREs. It is not meant to prevent outages. And, it is not just about hardware. Chaos Engineering is about testing how reliable your systems are. It’s meant to show you how things fail, including when other dependent systems fail - think cascading failures. This is a good way to discover inconvenient truths about that beautiful code that you wrote. Everything fails, and great insights are to be found when it does.
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