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Chaos in the Calm: What is Chaos Engineering?

Chaos Engineering isn’t just something that Dr. Robotnik does; it’s a serious and increasingly common part of the development life cycle. In an ever more dynamic global environment, there is growing pressure to introduce continuous testing to the DevOps toolchain to ensure security and resilience.

Masters of chaos Gremlin state clearly in their whitepaper that: “Critical to chaos engineering is that it is treated as a scientific discipline.”

Another draw of chaos engineering is that it challenges perhaps the biggest blight of the software engineering world: incorrect assumptions.

There are great forums (including the Chaos Community) as well as a wealth of offerings, including VMware’s ‘Mangle’ that is described as a tool to enable you: “…