Skip to content the morning paper a random walk through Computer Science research, by Adrian Colyer Menu About Archives InfoQ QR Editions Search Subscribe Tags Privacy #site-navigation #masthead July 5, 2019 June 28, 2019 ~ adriancolyer .entry-meta .entry-header Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., ICSE 2019 Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. The ‘controlled’ part is important here because given the scale and complexity of the environment under test, the only meaningful place to do this is in producti...