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Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production,” the “Principles of Chaos Engineering” site explains. Chaos engineering is about increasing reliability in increasingly unreliable, unpredictable, distributed systems.

One of the myths surrounding chaos engineering is that chaos experiments have to be in production, but, as Gunderson says, not all systems are set up for that.

Gunderson says, even after seven years running chaos tests PagerDuty still works to incentivize people to participate in and embrace chaos engineering.

His “Chaos with Care” talk focused on how to initiate and then grow a chaos practice, pairing it with other engineering practices and safety in your systems.

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