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AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 25
Collections
The Chaos Engineering Collection
The Chaos Engineering Collection
A list of my chaos engineering blog posts.
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 5, 2019
The Resilient Architecture Collection
The Resilient Architecture Collection
A list of my resiliency related blog posts.
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 8, 2019
The Operational Excellence Collection
The Operational Excellence Collection
A list of my operational excellence related blog posts.
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 10, 2020
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Skills that make a big difference
Skills that make a big difference
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1: Intuition
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 15
Event-driven architecture with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
Event-driven architecture with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
The centerpiece of event-driven architecture is a queue — made easier now that Amazon SQS can trigger AWS Lambda functions
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 28, 2018
Operational Readiness Review Template
Operational Readiness Review Template
Towards Operational Excellence
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 11, 2020
All Publications
Schedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Schedule a recurring experiment with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Chaos Engineering on AWS
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 16, 2022
Testing Spot Instance interruptions with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Testing Spot Instance interruptions with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Data-driven chaos engineering
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 8, 2022
Injecting custom faults with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Injecting custom faults with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Part 2— AWS Fault Injection Simulator series
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 24, 2021
What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator and why you should care.
What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator and why you should care.
In this blog post I will explain a little bit about distributed systems and why chaos engineering, a relatively new discipline, emerged as…
Adrian Hornsby
Aug 26, 2021
Towards continuous resilience
Towards continuous resilience
How to anticipate, monitor, respond, and continuously learn from failure.
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 24, 2021
Looking back to look forward
Looking back to look forward
Thoughts on chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 10, 2021
Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
Originally published at https://aws.amazon.com on August 18, 2020 by Varun Jewalikar and Adrian Hornsby
Adrian Hornsby
Aug 18, 2020
Ten lessons from twelve years of AWS
Ten lessons from twelve years of AWS
Recording and redacted transcript from my keynote at the AWS Community Day Australia and New Zealand.
Adrian Hornsby
Jul 6, 2020
Incident Postmortem Template
Incident Postmortem Template
Operational Excellence — Q&A
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 24, 2020
Creating your own Chaos Monkey with AWS Systems Manager Automation
Creating your own Chaos Monkey with AWS Systems Manager Automation
Chaos Engineering on AWS
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 15, 2020
Chaos Engineering Q&A — How to safely inject failure?
Chaos Engineering Q&A — How to safely inject failure?
Answering questions from my webinar
Adrian Hornsby
May 8, 2020
Chaos Engineering Q&A — What and who is a chaos engineer?
Chaos Engineering Q&A — What and who is a chaos engineer?
Answering questions from my chaos engineering webinar
Adrian Hornsby
Apr 28, 2020
Immutable Infrastructure
Immutable Infrastructure
Provide reliability, consistency and confidence through immutability
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 30, 2020
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 3
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 3
Mechanisms
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 4, 2020
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 2
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 2
On the importance of tools
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 17, 2020
Towards Operational Excellence— Part 1
Towards Operational Excellence— Part 1
Customers, Culture and why you should care.
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 15, 2020
Chaos Engineering — Part 3
Chaos Engineering — Part 3
Failure Injection — Tools and Methods
Adrian Hornsby
Oct 31, 2019
Injecting Chaos to Amazon EC2 using AWS System Manager
Injecting Chaos to Amazon EC2 using AWS System Manager
Ansible, Chef, and Bastion host — these are the standard, widely known tools and techniques, used to execute ad-hoc commands on remote…
Adrian Hornsby
Aug 23, 2019
Chaos Engineering — Part 2
Chaos Engineering — Part 2
Planning your first experiment
Adrian Hornsby
Jul 29, 2019
Injecting Chaos to AWS Lambda functions with Lambda Layers- RELOADED
Injecting Chaos to AWS Lambda functions with Lambda Layers- RELOADED
Adrian Hornsby
Jul 16, 2019
Chaos Engineering — Part 1
Chaos Engineering — Part 1
The art of breaking things purposefully
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 30, 2019
Multi-region serverless backend — reloaded
Multi-region serverless backend — reloaded
Accelerating Serverless Applications with Global Accelerator
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 1, 2019
Injecting Chaos to AWS Lambda functions using Lambda Layers
Injecting Chaos to AWS Lambda functions using Lambda Layers
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”…
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 3, 2019
Getting started with AWS Lambda Layers for Python
Getting started with AWS Lambda Layers for Python
You want to avoid errors that can occur when you install and package dependencies with your function code? You want to keep your…
Adrian Hornsby
Dec 27, 2018
Patterns for Resilient Architecture — Part 4
Patterns for Resilient Architecture — Part 4
Caching for Resiliency
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 12, 2018
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