Keynote delivered for W-JAX in Munich in November 2018 on how you can use Chaos Engineering as part of establishing your own Resilience Engineering capability.

1. Trust and Confidence through
Chaos
Russ Miles
CEO, ChaosIQ
The Why, What, How and Who
of Chaos Engineering
or
How and why you should start doing Chaos Engineering
in your organisation today!

2. Russ Miles
CEO, co-founder
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Sylvain Hellegouarch
CTO, co-founder
ChaosIQ

3. “To support our users in
establishing their own
Resilience Engineering
Capability”

4. “To enable EVERYONE to do chaos
engineering, safely and with the emphasis
on establishing learning through building
your own Resilience Engineering
Capability.”

5. TBD
@russmiles

12. Parable of Ignored Architect

13. Reliability is the GOAL

14. Resilience is CRITICAL

17. Where did chaos come
from?

18. 2010
https://www.gremlin.com/community/tutorials/chaos-engineering-the-history-principles-and-practice/
Chaos Monkey

19. An Alternative…

22. “she caused a “mission” to crash by selecting
the DSKY keys in an unexpected way, alerting
the team as to what would happen if the
prelaunch program, P01, were inadvertently
selected by a real astronaut during a real
mission, during real midcourse.”
Murphy, Niall Richard; Beyer, Betsy; Jones,
Chris; Petoff, Jennifer. Site Reliability
Engineering: How Google Runs Production
Systems . O'Reilly Media. Kindle Edition.

24. So what’s the problem?

25. “Production Hates You.”

26. Expectations have Grown

27. Feature Velocity != Terminal Velocity

29. You are here

30. Distributed Systems?
External Dependencies?

31. You are here

32. Building complex
systems…

33. … that evolve quickly …

34. (Which was the point)

35. You are here

36. Attack Vectors on
“Reliability”

37. Infrastructure

38. Infrastructure
Platform

39. Infrastructure
Platform
Applications

40. Infrastructure
Platform
Applications
People, Practices & Process

41. TBD
Wouldn’t it be great
if there was a proactive
practice for exploring and
diminishing system
weaknesses before they
affected users?
Probably a pipe
dream…

42. Chaos Engineering

43. A mindset,
a process,
some ethics
some practices,
and some tools,
a minimum bar

44. The Chaos Engineering
Mindset

45. "never let an outage go to
waste" -
@caseyrosenthal

46. “Chaos Engineering allows us to have
‘pre-mortems’ instead of post-mortems.”
- Michael Barrett, Head of Infrastructure
Engineering, Remind

47. The Chaos Engineering
Process

48. 1. Form a hypothesis.
2. Communicate to your team.
3. Run experiments.
4. Analyze the results.
5. Increase the scope.
6. Automate experiments.
https://blog.codeship.com/embracing-the-chaos-of-chaos-engineering/

49. The Chaos Engineering
Ethics

50. “Skin in the game”

51. Two Key Practices

52. Game Days Chaos Experiments
Automate

53. How do non-technical
folks react???

54. Drop the term!

55. Talk Production
Incidents

56. Rules of
Chaos “Club”

57. Rule 1:
Don’t talk
about Chaos Club…
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58. Rule 2:
It’s about
“Learning”
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59. Rule 3:
Chaos is not
a surprise
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60. Rule 4:
If you know
the consequences,
don’t do the experiment
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61. Towards a…

62. “Chaos Control”

63. “Chaos Observability”

64. “Collaborative Chaos”

65. “Customizable Chaos”

66. In Summary

67. A confession…

68. Where to go next?
www.chaosiq.io

69. One last thing…

70. Books are coming…

71. See you on the road!
Ride Safe, Ride Reliable,
Do Chaos (Engineering)
@russmiles
russ@chaosiq.io