Breaking Serverless Things on Purpose: Chaos Engineering in Stateless Environments

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" summary

Shows concrete chaos experiments that break serverless apps on purpose: simulate database outages, revoke IAM permissions, throttle downstream APIs and induce cold starts, causing invocation errors and timeout spikes across many functions. Runs planned game days, instruments Lambdas and services with out-of-the-box and third-party observability to capture request rates, error counts, latencies and resource usage, discovers missing retries and circuit breakers, implements fixes, and validates resilience improvements.

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" chapters (3)

1. 0:00Introduction to chaos
2. 12:05Stateless chaos mechanisms
3. 22:44Q&A and closing

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