Psychology of Chaos Engineering
summary
Chaos engineering is used to train teams as well as systems: companies run daytime experiments like Failure Fridays and Netflix’s lunchtime chaos to practice incident response, with an engineer standing by and incident response procedures activated. Experiments run in carefully monitored environments, stop when key business indicators drop, and focus on limiting blast radius. Surveys show many users feel reassured while some teams feel uneasy, so transparency, defined shutdown criteria, and an incident commander rehearsal requirement make it work.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Preamble
- 2:24let's set some agreement
- 3:08Chaos Engineering - definition
- 3:40Chaos @ Netflix
- 4:57perceptions
- 5:29isn't all engineering chaotic?
- 6:19it's not about breaking things
- 6:43look, I know you know this
- 7:30I'm gonna say it anyway
- 7:44these are experiments
- 8:59how we talk about things matter
- 12:00people get nervous
- 12:31You want to do 'what' in production??
- 13:30use your monitoring like it's for real because it is
- 15:43but what about people?
- 16:21what do you feel knowing Netflix uses chaos engineering?
- 16:42what about your bank?
- 16:58blast radius - twitter pole
- 18:32management can get... nervous - consider your words
- 19:34it's all about philisophy
- 21:59safety first
