Chaos Day: When Reliability Reigns

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Defines "Chaos Days" as regular, automated fault-injection sessions that borrow from Amazon game days, capture-the-flag security drills, and hack day culture to harden systems. Reports a concrete result: running targeted experiments on critical database components at Dropbox produces a 10x reduction in incidents within three months after starting from a 20% goal. Emphasizes automating experiments, focusing on top failures rather than low-hanging fruit, and turning BCP-style tests into continuous chaos engineering.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:18Business continuity planning
3. 0:49Chaos days
4. 1:37Outages

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