Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2024
2024-02-15
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[Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2020, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2021, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2022, Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2024]
who it's for
chaos engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, cloud architects, frontend developers
topics
eBPF fault injection; generative AI for chaos experiments; LitmusChaos in CI pipelines; AWS Fault Injection Simulator; resilience modeling and hypotheses; reusable resilience probes; Kubernetes EKS chaos scenarios; serverless failure patterns; streaming platform stress testing; security chaos engineering; chaos gamedays and war games; visual React builder with LLMs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Gunnar Grosch, Anurag Palwal, Karthik Satchinanand, Sylvain Hellegouarch, Miko Pawlikowski, Prithvi Raj Venkat Raj | 17m |
Shows practical demos: eBPF-driven fault injection paired with generative AI to auto-generate experiments, a live demo application where cloud-level outages… | ||
| Hypothesis Development Through Resilience Modeling | Gunnar Grosch | 23m |
Claims a concrete workflow: build a resilience model that maps business failure modes to scenarios and four control types, then turn scenarios into testable… | ||
| Panel Discussion | Anurag Palwal, Karthik Satchinanand, Sylvain Hellegouarch, Miko Pawlikowski, Prithvi Raj Venkat Raj | 52m |
Panelists compare four concrete OSS tools Chaos Mesh Litmus Chaos Chaos Toolkit Powerful Seal and trace origins: YAML/CRD experiments, Python runtime choices… | ||
| Chaos Engr. in the Fast Lane | Francesco Sbaraglia, Michele Dodic | 38m |
Claim: kernel‑level eBPF instrumentation plus generative AI lets teams run reproducible, security‑aware chaos experiments without changing apps or rebooting… | ||
| Smart Chaos : Leveraging Generative AI | Indika Wimalasuriya | 39m |
Claims that generative AI can automate most chaos engineering stages and demonstrates it with an EV charging architecture fed into AWS Party Rock, producing… | ||
| Resilient and well-architected apps with chaos | Kiranpreet Chawla | 20m |
Covers using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to run concrete experiments against a single EC2 + RDS in one AZ app behind an ALB: stop/start a lone instance… | ||
| MightyMeld Architecture 101: Future of Frontend | Opemipo Disu | 16m |
MightyMeld is a visual React builder that claims you can drag, drop and edit UIs without typing code while it updates your local codebase via an LLM-driven… | ||
| Chaos in the cloud | Bent Krause, Oliver Steenbuck | 34m |
Demo uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator with JSON/YAML experiment templates, IAM safeguards and EventBridge to auto-stop; it injects a 2 minute subnet… | ||
| Bring Chaos to Your Org | Long Zhang, Kristina Kondrashevich | 23m |
Electrolux consolidates multiple observability stacks into Datadog, runs a CTF-style chaos gameday with 41 developers from 12 teams across 4 countries and… | ||
| War Games – prepare for the unexpected | Gabor Gerencser | 39m |
Claims that running tabletop war games with ~15 people and longer environment-based war games (up to 6 hours, 20–30 participants) uncovers real weaknesses… | ||
| Chaos Validation Made Easy | Neelanjan Manna, Sayan Mondal | 28m |
Shows a practical Harness + Litmus workflow that runs a pod-delete on a GKE boutique microservice, wires in Prometheus/Grafana metrics and three reusable… | ||
| Exploring Industrial Equipment Modeling | Eugene Lykov | 16m |
Argues that proprietary process simulators lack flexibility for rotary equipment and shows a working alternative built as python modules that model each… | ||
| Security Chaos Engr.: Fix Things and Make Friends | David Lavezzo | 25m |
Argues that running controlled security chaos experiments proves whether defenses actually work by mapping atomic tests to MITRE ATT&CK, using harmless mimics… | ||
| Chaos Engr. and Service Ownership at Enterprise Scale | Jay Hankins | 13m |
Salesforce migrates to Hyperforce and builds a self-service chaos platform that runs privileged attacks across about 80 AWS accounts and orchestrates faults… | ||
| Chaos Engineering at Citi Bank | Charles Akl | 08m |
Converts L2 production support into an SRE/citability engineering team and adopts chaos engineering as a core discipline, running monthly production game days… | ||
| Selling your Company on Chaos Engineering | Andrew Benoit | 21m |
Practical playbook for getting budget and rollout approval: treat fault injection as a feature of high‑priority projects (cloud migration, DR, observability)… | ||
| Multi-domain scenarios and its business impacts | Tejendra Bhandari | 17m |
Explains a practical playbook: identify repeatable failure modes, reuse AWS experiments across services and convert them into an agile experiment bucket that… | ||
| Embracing Resilience in CD Pipelines | Saranya Jena, Sarthak Jain | 21m |
Argues that adding a disciplined Kos step into Harness CD pipelines finds faults early, using Litmus Kos and Harness CD APIs; cites downtime cost ~$5.6k per… | ||
| Building Resilient Systems - Serverless WebDev | Olumide Akinremi | 19m |
Explains how to apply chaos engineering to serverless web apps by simulating service outages (auth, DB, cache) using simple failure injections, and measuring… | ||
| Revolutionizing Software Development | Matthew Schillerstrom | 12m |
Argues that combining chaos engineering with feature flags measurably reduces rollbacks, speeds delivery and lowers cloud waste, citing a 23% rise in cloud… | ||
| Breaking Systems for Resilience | Dhiraj Kumar Jain | 26m |
Empirical claim: adopting chaos engineering raises availability (47% in a Gremlin survey) while lowering MTTR (45%) and MTD (41%); 63% of practitioners ran… | ||
| Pushing Your Streaming Platform to the Limit | Elad Leev | 24m |
Shows how to reproduce real streaming limits using the open source open messaging benchmark (OM) deployed via Helm on Kubernetes with a driver that assigns… | ||
| Unix shell - We can do better now | Ilya Sher | 14m |
Shell UI is still stuck in a teleprinter model despite cursor-addressable terminals since vt52 (1974/75). Claim: make most of the wall of text interactive by… | ||
| Implementing Chaos Engr. in a Risk Averse Culture | Kyle Shelton | 27m |
Practical playbook for getting chaos engineering past risk-averse leadership: define a measurable steady state and build experiments only after observability… | ||
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