Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos • Christina Yakomin • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia Chaos Engineering Day 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Christina Yakomin - Senior Technical Lead for SRE at Vanguard ABSTRACT Weather alert!! Vanguard's Chaos and Resilience Engineering team has implemented a home-grown Chaos Engineering platform, "The Climate of Chaos", featuring self-service experiments with meteorology-themed names like Cyclone, Tornado, and Blizzard. In this session, we'll break down the fundamentals of chaos engineering, the value of the practice, and why we decided to build our own platform from scratch, rather than leveraging a vendor product or an open source library. We'll also get into the details of our architecture, our client engagement model, our risk management strategy, and our integrated observability and reporting tooling. By running targeted experiments with our custom tool suite, we have ensured that our systems are ready to weather any storm, no matter how much chaos is in the forecast [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:50 What is Chaos Engineering? 03:23 Why is Chaos Engineering valuable? 04:59 Build vs buy 06:53 The climate of chaos 08:24 Our guiding principles 08:43 Serverless architecture 11:28 Easy adoption 13:28 Defined guardrails 15:42 Integrated reporting 17:22 What's next for our team? 21:00 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.us/chaos-day-2021/sessions/1722/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-chaos-signs-signs-everywhere-a-sign-what-five-man-electrical-band-and-todd-conklin-taught-me-about-chaos-engineering RECOMMENDED BOOKS Shortridge & Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/book Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH Mikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/2SQ5Olf Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hCiUe8 Murphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability Engineering • https://amzn.to/2Vg6Mbr https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #ChaosEngineering #SRE #DNS #GameDay #Production #SSH #Container #Security #SecurityChaosEngineering #Resilience #Serverless #AWS #AWSDynamoDB #AWSCloudWatch #AWSECSFargate #AWSLambda Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1