Re:The Discipline of Chaos Engineering
by mlafeldt on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:33AM
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Good question.
It is true that Google's Disaster Recovery Testing events are also about breaking things on purpose as a means of preparation. However, those events are typically large-scale, company-wide drills targeting not only critical systems but also business processes involving people.
(They even prevent experts from participating to make sure knowledge is spread across the organization. I recommend reading http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 for more.)
As dastbe has pointed out, Chaos Engineering is more about experimenting in a continuous, automated (and hopefully safe) way. Compared to DiRT, experiments are typically smaller in scope, involving fewer people, if any.
It is true that Google's Disaster Recovery Testing events are also about breaking things on purpose as a means of preparation. However, those events are typically large-scale, company-wide drills targeting not only critical systems but also business processes involving people.
(They even prevent experts from participating to make sure knowledge is spread across the organization. I recommend reading http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 for more.)
As dastbe has pointed out, Chaos Engineering is more about experimenting in a continuous, automated (and hopefully safe) way. Compared to DiRT, experiments are typically smaller in scope, involving fewer people, if any.