The Cloud Architect

A list of my chaos engineering blog posts.

A list of my resiliency related blog posts.

A list of my operational excellence related blog posts.

Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1: Intuition

The centerpiece of event-driven architecture is a queue — made easier now that Amazon SQS can trigger AWS Lambda functions

Towards Operational Excellence

Data-driven chaos engineering

Part 2— AWS Fault Injection Simulator series

In this blog post I will explain a little bit about distributed systems and why chaos engineering, a relatively new discipline, emerged as…

How to anticipate, monitor, respond, and continuously learn from failure.

Thoughts on chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator

Originally published at https://aws.amazon.com on August 18, 2020 by Varun Jewalikar and Adrian Hornsby

Recording and redacted transcript from my keynote at the AWS Community Day Australia and New Zealand.

Operational Excellence — Q&A

Chaos Engineering on AWS

Answering questions from my webinar

Answering questions from my chaos engineering webinar

Provide reliability, consistency and confidence through immutability

Mechanisms

On the importance of tools

Customers, Culture and why you should care.

Failure Injection — Tools and Methods

Ansible, Chef, and Bastion host — these are the standard, widely known tools and techniques, used to execute ad-hoc commands on remote…

Planning your first experiment

The art of breaking things purposefully

Accelerating Serverless Applications with Global Accelerator

“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.”…

You want to avoid errors that can occur when you install and package dependencies with your function code? You want to keep your…

Caching for Resiliency