Breaking Bad (Systems): a journey through chaos engineering
summary
Shows a practical path from history to hands‑on: Netflix tools inspiring Chaos Monkey style failures, then using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run experiment templates that target tagged Lambdas, inject faults (demo injects HTTP response 418 for 5 minutes), and capture logs and generated reports. Covers roles, alarms and observability dashboards, a Lambda wrapper that checks for active experiments, a bank using FIS to simulate network loss, and the limitation that FIS manipulates infrastructure not application logic.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Chaos Engineering
- 0:34Audience Participation and Testing Philosophy
- 1:35Simon's Background and Work
- 2:25Different Types of Testing
- 3:32Introduction to Chaos Engineering
- 4:14History of Chaos Engineering
- 8:03Netflix and Chaos Engineering Tools
- 10:03AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
- 15:00Demo: Using FIS with Lambda
- 20:57Best Practices and Final Thoughts
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