Introduction to Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering is defined as the practice of testing distributed computing systems to ensure their resilience against unexpected failures. It encourages the simulation of real-world disruptions in a controlled environment to understand how a system performs under stress. This approach involves defining a steady state hypothesis for the system's behavior and then injecting failures to see how the actual behavior deviates from this expectation. Continuous chaos experiments are essential, as they allow teams to uncover weaknesses in their systems that may need fixing or optimization.