🎅 Merry Christmas from Chaos Fundamentals! 🎄 This year, we’re celebrating the gift of resilience — from Santa’s ultra-resilient sleigh to the cross-functional teams that keep your systems running. Join us for holiday cheer, reflections on Chaos Engineering in 2024, and some festive fun. Thank you for being part of our chaos-loving community, and here’s to a more resilient 2025!
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With just 2 days until Christmas, the signs of failure are everywhere — from flashing server alerts to tangled cables. In this festive article, we reveal the red flags that signal it’s time to adopt Chaos Engineering. Discover how frequent incidents, slow RCA, and fear of Friday deployments point to deeper system issues. Identify the signs, run chaos experiments, and build a more resilient future for your team. Drop a comment with the biggest signs you’ve seen that it’s time to embrace Chaos Engineering!
On Day 3 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we meet ‘Frosty the Fault Injection’ and dive into advanced Chaos Engineering techniques. From CPU throttling and noisy neighbor simulations to database rollbacks and network partitions, learn how experts run high-impact experiments. Discover how to take your chaos skills to the next level and keep your systems resilient against even the most complex failures. Drop your ideas for advanced chaos experiments — the best ones might be featured in our next post!
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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On Day 5 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we explore ‘Santa’s Sleigh of Chaos: Multi-Cloud and Distributed Systems.’ Discover how multi-cloud strategies help avoid disasters like region failovers, API gateway failures, and data sync issues. Learn how Chaos Engineering can make your distributed system as resilient as Santa’s sleigh. Run cross-cloud chaos experiments and ensure your systems stay on track this holiday season!
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On Day 6 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we explore ‘The 12 Systems of Christmas: Chaos Engineering Across Your Tech Stack.’ From microservices and databases to network splits and CI/CD failures, discover how to test every part of your stack for resilience. Learn how cross-stack chaos experiments can prepare you for outages, reduce downtime, and ensure a smooth holiday season for users.
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On Day 7 of our 10 Days of Christmas Chaos, we reveal how ‘The Grinch Stole Resilience’ with classic chaos attacks like DNS hijacking, rate limit floods, and CPU throttling. Learn how to defend against these Grinch-style threats using Chaos Engineering and build a system that even the Grinch can’t break! Discover how to simulate attacks, strengthen your architecture, and avoid becoming the next holiday outage headline.
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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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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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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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