"GameDay Testing"

Fireside Chat with Jesse Robbins and Kolton Andrus • Failover Conf 2021

At Gremlin's Failover Conf 2021, Kolton Andrus and I covered GameDay origins at Amazon, the evolution of chaos engineering, and where reliability practices were headed.

GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

My USENIX LISA'11 talk on GameDay: deliberately inject failures into production to build organizational resilience before real outages happen. I had been running these exercises at Amazon since 2003.

“You don't choose the moment, the moment chooses you. You only choose how prepared you are when it does.”