Chaos Engineering — Part 2
Planning your first experiment
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced chaos engineering and explained how it helps uncover and fix unknowns in your system before they become outages in production; and also how it fosters positive cultural change inside organizations.
While I promised at the end of Part 1 to talk about “the tools and techniques used to inject failures into systems” — I had to follow the “logical” way my mind works.
So, in this post, I’ll instead answer the most common question asked by people who want to start practicing chaos engineering:
“What do you break first?”
Fair question!! And certainly not a question that this panda seems to have the answer to.
Short answer: Target critical services in your request path.
Long, but wiser answer: There are three areas that you need to invest in, in order to figure out the smartest way to start your chaos engineering…
