Maria Korolov writing for The New Stack
When Netflix first pioneered chaos engineering 10 years ago with its Chaos Monkey tools, the prevalent idea was randomly shutting down parts of a system to see if the whole thing goes down.
Since then, chaos engineering has evolved into a more mature practice that vendors and enterprises are adopting more widely, whether they call it chaos engineering or not. Today’s best practices include […]
“I look at chaos engineering as a very aggressive form of performance testing at the end of the software delivery cycle,” said Jason English, principal analyst at Intellyx.
The industry is going through a “shift left” process, where more of the testing work happens at the start of the development process. But there’s also a “shift right,” he said: “The development cycle is getting so short that testing is also shifting right — into production.”
And the effectiveness of chaos engineering is helping it expand from where it started out, with web-native companies like Netflix, to more established enterprises, English said.
“You see larger companies, even highly regulated companies, realizing that this is part of an overall compliance check,” he said…
Read the entire article in The New Stack here: https://thenewstack.io/chaos-engineering-business-value/
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