This Week in Chaos — 23rd February, 2018

Keeping you up-to-date on all the news and announcements in Chaos Engineering

Welcome to the fourth edition of “This Week in Chaos”, the best way to keep up-to-date on all things happening in Chaos Engineering. It’s been a busy time over the last few weeks, so let’s get straight into the highlights… (as always, if we’ve missed anything then please get in touch!)

Highlights

Here’s the hot news we’ve encountered from the community around Chaos Engineering:

• Russ Miles, CEO of ChaosIQ, along with Martin Westergaard Lassen of Humio, gave a free talk in London on Thursday, 15th of February on “Cloud Native Observability 101”, employing the ChaosIQ tool to demonstrate the value of observability to detect and learn from system weaknesses.
• Slides from a talk by Aaron Rinehart on ChaoSlingr, an open source“Security Chaos Engineering Tool focused primarily on the experimentation on AWS Infrastructure to bring system security weaknesses to the forefront.”
• Russ Miles, launched a series of free, online “Introduction to Chaos Engineering” events. The first session was very successful and sold out immediately. Further sessions are now planned.
• Sylvain Hellegouarch, CTO of ChaosIQ, published an article and video that demonstrates a full Chaos Engineering feedback and learning loop using ChaosIQ, the free and open source Chaos Toolkit, and Weave.
• Russ Miles published an article for the Chaos Toolkit on how the new notification feature of the toolkit delivers on the promise of “Chaos should never be a surprise…”
• Russ Miles published an article titled “Chaos Observability with Humio” that showed how the Chaos Toolkit can provide observability of chaos experiments being executed by your organisation into the overall observability picture maintained by Humio.
• Russ Miles published an article and video titled “Cloud Native Chaos Engineering in Action” that shows how chaos engineering can be applied, using the Chaos Toolkit and ChaosIQ, to target Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry PaaS.

In Case You Missed It…

Some links to historical news and resources of interest, from “The week in Chaos” and further afield:

• Infoq has highlighted Chaos Engineering in its “DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report — January 2018”.
• The Chaos Toolkit added the report command to make creating beautiful reports on your chaos experiment findings as easy as possible.
• The Chaos Toolkit added notifications (to Slack for instance) to increase observability of your Chaos Experiments.
• The video of Kolton Andrus, CEO of Gremlin, talk on “The evolution of chaos” is now available.
• Phil Smith, CTO of ECS, published “Using Chaos Engineering to increase reliability & availability”.
• Russ Miles published an article on “Cloud Native and Chaos Engineering”.
• Aaron Rinehart has published an excellent article on “Security Chaos Engineering: A new paradigm for cybersecurity”.
• The “Geek on a Harley, Road to GOTO Chicago: Chaos Tour” has been announced! The Geek will be talking about Chaos Engineering all throughout the tour, and the organisers are seeking help from local user groups with planning the many evening events that will be spoken at in every destination across the month of April.

Forthcoming Events

• Russ Miles will be speaking on Chaos Engineering in a free evening event in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 14th 2018 as a warm-up for Build Stuff Espana 2018.
• The third Paris Chaos Engineering meetup has been announced for Thursday, 20th of March in Paris.
• Russ Miles is giving a workshop at the “Day of Cloud Native” in Oslo on Tuesday, 20th March, 2018. Early Bird Tickets are still available!
• Christophe Rochefolle will be presenting a keynote with a short introduction on Chaos Engineering at the “Journée Française du Test Logiciel” (French Software Testing Day) on 10th April, 2018
• The first Chaos Engineering meetup in Korea has been scheduled for the 17th April, 2018
• Russ Miles will be speaking at GOTO Chicago in April, 2018 on “Learning to Love you Non-Functionals” through Chaos Engineering.
• Kolton Andrus, CEO of Gremlin, will be speaking at GOTO Chicago in April, 2018 on “Breaking things on Purpose”.
• Russ Miles will be doing his Deep Dive on Chaos Engineering 1-day workshop at GOTO Chicago in April, 2018.
• Russ Miles will be giving a talk on Chaos Engineering at Build Stuff Espana 2018 on May 5–6th, 2018
• Russ Miles will be giving a Chaos Engineering closing keynote and a 1-day Chaos Engineering Deep Dive course at Topconf Tallinn in Estonia in November, 2018.

Get Involved!

The Chaos Engineering community is wonderfully vibrant and wants YOU to get involved. Here are great places to get the discussion going:

• The Chaos Engineering slack for general chat
• The Chaos Toolkit slack for discussions on the project
• The Days of Chaos slack for general discussions in French
• The Chaos Engineering sub-reddit on the topic
• The Chaos Community Google Group

Something We Missed?

Chaos Engineering adoption is moving fast, and so there’s bound to be something we missed. If you’ve found something you’d like included in the next edition of “This Week in Chaos” then we want to hear from you!

Get in touch to suggest topics for next week’s edition, or join our Slack teamand get in touch there by messaging the editors, Russ Miles and Sylvain Hellegouarch.

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