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The Importance of Building Your Circle of Trust as an Engineer
The Importance of Building Your Circle of Trust as an Engineer
Become a Better Engineer
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 12
Collections
Becoming a Better Engineer
Becoming a Better Engineer
The Collection
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 20, 2023
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
The Chaos Engineering Collection
The Chaos Engineering Collection
A list of my chaos engineering blog posts.
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 5, 2019
Trending
Patterns for Resilient Architecture — Part 3
Patterns for Resilient Architecture — Part 3
Preventing service failures with health checks
Adrian Hornsby
Sep 27, 2018
Towards continuous resilience
Towards continuous resilience
How to anticipate, monitor, respond, and continuously learn from failure.
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 24, 2021
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 3
Towards Operational Excellence — Part 3
Mechanisms
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 4, 2020
All Publications
Vulnerability: A Source of Strength for Engineers
Vulnerability: A Source of Strength for Engineers
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 4
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 5
Engineering Resilience: Lessons from Amazon Search’s Chaos Engineering Journey
Engineering Resilience: Lessons from Amazon Search’s Chaos Engineering Journey
Discover how Amazon Search enhanced its system resilience through practical resilience engineering, transitioning from traditional load…
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 27, 2023
Building resilience-focused organizations
Building resilience-focused organizations
The importance of culture, mechanisms, and tools
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 6, 2023
Best practices for a successful chaos engineering journey
Best practices for a successful chaos engineering journey
Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part 2
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 12, 2023
The five modes of chaos engineering experimentation
The five modes of chaos engineering experimentation
Unleashing the Full Potential of Chaos Engineering — Part1
Adrian Hornsby
Jun 11, 2023
Respecting What Came Before, Premature Optimization, the Pitfalls of Sensationalism and Technology…
Respecting What Came Before, Premature Optimization, the Pitfalls of Sensationalism and Technology…
My response to the reaction generated by the Prime Video article published last week
Adrian Hornsby
May 10, 2023
The AWS Fault Injection Simulator Collection
The AWS Fault Injection Simulator Collection
A list of my blog posts related to AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 30, 2023
Monitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with Datadog
Monitoring Chaos Engineering Experiments with Datadog
Tutorial — Using Datadog Alarms with Amazon EventBridge to Safely Monitor AWS Fault Injection Simulator Experiments
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 28, 2023
Climbing out of the Chasm
Climbing out of the Chasm
Unleashing the Potential of Chaos Engineering
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 19, 2023
I deleted a production database
I deleted a production database
And learned a few things along the way
Adrian Hornsby
Mar 5, 2023
Embracing failure is key to success
Embracing failure is key to success
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 3
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 13, 2023
Empathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus on
Empathy might be the one skill every engineer should focus on
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 29, 2023
AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
AWS Lambda: Resilience under-the-hood
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 25, 2023
How intuition makes us better engineers
How intuition makes us better engineers
Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 1
Adrian Hornsby
Jan 15, 2023
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
Looking back to look forward
Looking back to look forward
Thoughts on chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Adrian Hornsby
Feb 10, 2021
Operational Readiness Review Template
Operational Readiness Review Template
Towards Operational Excellence
Adrian Hornsby
Nov 11, 2020
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
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