Chaos Engineering — Part 1

The art of breaking things purposefully

I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to Adrian Cockcroft for his review, input and for helping me make this blog post better. Adrian’s work on chaos engineering has always been an inspiration for me and today I feel privileged and honored to be able to work with him.

Firefighters— these highly trained specialists risk their lives every day fighting fires. Did you know that before becoming an active-duty firefighter, one needs to spend approximately 600 hours in training? And that’s just the beginning. After that, some firefighters — according to reports — spend over 80% of their active-duty time in training.

Why?

When a firefighter goes under live-fire conditions, she/he needs to have an intuition for the fire they are fighting against. To acquire that lifesaving intuition, she/he needs to train hour after hour, after hour. Like the old adage says, practice makes perfect.