Looking back to look forward

Chaos engineering has emerged as the best method for uncovering hidden issues, monitoring blind spots, and performance bottlenecks that can be challenging to find in modern, distributed systems. Chaos engineering has come a long way recently and is no longer just for people with deep expertise. In this talk, I will share lessons learned from years of helping customers with chaos engineering and show you how they have influenced the development of the new chaos engineering service AWS Fault Injection Simulator.

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   © 2021, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates.
   Adrian Hornsby
   Looking back to look forward
   Thoughts on chaos engineering and AWS
   Fault Injection Simulator
   

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   “To understand the living present and the
   promise of the future, it is necessary to
   remember the past.” 
   —Rachel Carson
   

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   Jesse Robbins, “Master of Disaster”
   GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
   

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   © 2021, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates.
   Jesse Robbins, “Master of Disaster”
   GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction
   

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   How do you build intuition?
   

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   1- Increase your awareness
   2- Fight biases
   3- Train
   

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    1- Increase your awareness
    

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    “Dogs Not Barking”
    

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    2- Fight biases
    

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    3- Train
    

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    AWS Fault Injection Simulator
    Fully managed chaos engineering service
    Safeguards
    Real-world
    conditions
    Easy to
    get started
    PRE-ANNOUNCED
    

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoNeMLj3CHc
    

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhLzimNlqHM
    

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    https://www.twitch.tv/videos/838411867
    

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    1- Increase your awareness
    2- Fight biases
    3- Train
    

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    “It is not failure itself that holds
    you back; it is the fear of failure
    that paralyzes you.”
    - Brian Tracy
    

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    Thank you!
    https://medium.com/the-cloud-architect
    

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