Category: Data, Infrastructure

For Kolton Andrus, CEO and co-founder, Gremlin, chaos engineering is “is one of my favorite topics for debate,” and “is what makes chaos engineering sound fun and exciting.” In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Andrus defines chaos engineering and describes how organizations can make it work for them.

Chaos engineering] scares the pants off of some old school folks that aren’t comfortable with that kind of chaos in their environments. And so most people think chaos engineering is randomly breaking things and seeing what happens,” said Andrus. I think that chaos engineering is thoughtful, planned experiments that teach us about our system and one of the key concepts that goes with that is this idea of the ‘blast radius.’ When we run this experiment, whom might we impact?

Prior to founding Gremlin — as one of the pioneers in chaos engineering — Andrus became heavily involved in helping to avoid service outages, first at Amazon and then at Netflix.

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