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Festive image of seven mischievous elves in a North Pole-style workshop, each representing one of the '7 Deadly Sins of Chaos Engineering.' The elves are causing controlled chaos around glowing server racks, system dashboards with error alerts, and holiday decorations like Christmas lights, snowflakes, and candy canes. Santa Claus is seen in the background, facepalming as he watches the chaos unfold, symbolizing the impact of poor chaos engineering practices.

Day 4: The 7 Deadly Sins of Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / December 21, 2024 / Chaos Engineering, Chaos Experiments, Chaos Testing, Christmas Tech, Cloud Resilience, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Holiday Chaos, Holiday Tech, Incident Response, On-Call Workflows, Production Outages, Resilience Testing, Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, System Failures, System Reliability, System Resilience, Tech Education, Tech Humor, Tech Outages

On Day 4 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we reveal ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of Chaos Engineering.’ From ignoring blast radius controls to running chaos during peak load, these common mistakes can derail even the best-intentioned experiments. Discover how to avoid these sins, improve your chaos strategy, and keep your systems resilient this holiday season. Drop a comment to confess your chaos sins — the best stories may be featured in a future post!

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Santa Claus in a command center-style control room filled with screens flashing error alerts, outage warnings, and system dashboards. Santa wears a headset, looking focused as he points at one of the screens. Around him, playful elves rush with wrenches, checklists, and alert bells. The scene is set in a festive holiday atmosphere with Christmas lights, snowflakes falling outside the window, and subtle chaos-themed design elements like alert icons, warning triangles, and network error symbols integrated into the background.

Day 8: Jingle All The Way (To Incident Resolution): Chaos-Driven Incident Management

Chaos Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / December 17, 2024 / Alert Fatigue, Chaos Engineering, Chaos Experiments, Chaos Testing, Christmas Tech, Cloud Outages, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Escalation Paths, Holiday Chaos, Incident Management, Incident Resolution, Incident Response, Incident Response Plans, On-Call Readiness, On-Call Workflows, Postmortems, Production Outages, Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, System Reliability, Tech Education, Tech Outages, Tech Resilience

On Day 8 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we tackle ‘Jingle All The Way (To Incident Resolution): Chaos-Driven Incident Management.’ Discover how Chaos Engineering improves incident response, prepares on-call teams, and strengthens postmortem reports. Learn how to build chaos readiness into your workflows, simulate failure scenarios, and turn incidents into learning moments. Drop your vote for the worst incident response you’ve seen — we’ll feature the best stories!

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Santa Claus holding a large scroll labeled 'Naughty List' with the word 'Myths' written prominently. Mischievous elves surround him, looking curious and playful. The background is a festive North Pole workshop adorned with Christmas lights, candy canes, and snowflakes. Subtle tech elements like cloud icons, server racks, and error alert symbols are cleverly integrated into the scene to symbolize chaos engineering concepts.

Day 9: The Naughty List: 10 Myths About Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / December 16, 2024 / AWS Outage, Chaos Engineering, Chaos Engineering Myths, Chaos Experiments, Christmas Countdown, Cloud Outages, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Engineering Best Practices, Fault Injection, Holiday Outages, Holiday Tech, Incident Response, Misconceptions, Myths, Production Outages, Resilience Testing, Server Reliability, Site Reliability Engineering, Slack Outage, SRE, System Reliability, System Resilience, System Testing, Tech Education, TLS Certificate

Think you know Chaos Engineering? Think again! On Day 9 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we tackle ‘The Naughty List: 10 Myths About Chaos Engineering.’ From the idea that it’s just ‘breaking production’ to the belief that it’s only for big tech, we bust the most persistent misconceptions. Discover the truth behind Chaos Engineering, learn how it applies to companies big and small, and join the conversation by sharing the biggest myths you’ve heard. Which myth do you think tops the Naughty List?

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Santa Claus sitting at a desk in a cozy North Pole workshop, looking surprised as he sees an 'Outage Detected' alert on his computer screen. Christmas lights glow around him, a tech-themed Christmas tree with ornaments like Wi-Fi, server, and cloud icons stands nearby, and a countdown clock reads '10 Days Until Christmas.' Snowflakes gently fall outside the window.

10 Days Until Christmas: Unwrapping Chaos – Real-Life Outages and Their Lessons

Chaos Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / December 15, 2024 / Authentication Issues, Auto-Scaling, AWS Outage, Chaos Engineering, Chaos Experiments, Christmas Countdown, Cloud Outage, Disaster Recovery, DNS Failures, Failover Testing, Holiday Outage, Holiday Tech, Incident Response, Microsoft Teams Outage, Network Partitioning, Outage Prevention, Production Outage, Real-World Outages, Regional Dependencies, Site Reliability Engineering, Slack Outage, SRE, System Outages, System Resilience, Tech Lessons, TLS Certificate Failure, Traffic Surge

With only 10 days until Christmas, Santa faces an unexpected challenge — an ‘Outage Detected’ alert on his computer screen! In this playful yet insightful article, we explore real-world outages from AWS, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, and reveal how Chaos Engineering can prevent holiday disasters. Discover key lessons, actionable takeaways, and how to prepare your systems for the ‘Outages of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.’ Don’t let your holiday operations get derailed — learn from the best in tech!

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Chaos Engineering vs. Resilience Engineering: What’s the Difference?

Resilience Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / December 1, 2024 / Chaos Engineering, Chaos Testing, Cloud-Native Systems, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Failure Testing, Fault Tolerance, Incident Response, Innovation in IT, IT Infrastructure, IT Systems, Organizational Resilience, Reliability Engineering, Resilience Engineering, Site Reliability, System Adaptability, System Design, System Resilience

At Chaos Fundamentals, we often get asked: What’s the difference between Chaos Engineering and Resilience Engineering? While both aim to create stronger, more reliable systems, they take distinct approaches. Chaos Engineering is all about bold experiments to uncover weaknesses, while Resilience Engineering focuses on designing adaptable systems that thrive under pressure. Dive into this article to explore how these practices work together to future-proof IT systems in today’s fast-paced, cloud-native world. 🚀

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Mastering Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio: Steps to Build Resilient Systems

Chaos Engineering / Leave a Comment / Ollie C / November 21, 2024 / Application Performance Monitoring, Azure Chaos Studio, Azure Cloud, Chaos Engineering, CI/CD Pipeline, Cloud Automation, Cloud Infrastructure Testing, Cloud Resilience, Cloud Scalability, Cloud-Native Architecture, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Fault Injection, High Availability, Load Balancer Failover, Microsoft Azure, Performance Testing, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), System Reliability

Learn how to enhance cloud resilience and system reliability by leveraging Azure Chaos Studio to conduct controlled chaos engineering experiments on your distributed architecture.

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