The DiRT on Chaos Engineering at Google • Jason Cahoon • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia February 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Jason Cahoon - Site Reliability Engineer at Google ABSTRACT A shallow dive into 15 years of Chaos Engineering at Google, the lessons we've learned performing many thousands of disaster tests on production systems, and some tips on how to approach getting started with Chaos Engineering at your own [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:02 DiRT: Disaster Resiliency Testing 02:53 Why? 04:38 What we test? 06:01 Testing themes 10:01 Practical vs theoretical 12:31 How? 15:12 Picking what to test 16:29 Steps for bootstrapping a disaster testing program 18:25 Testing production vs testin in production 20:16 Really, you're breaking production though?! 23:00 Reporting on results 24:24 What have we learned? 26:55 Test example: Run at service level 28:51 Test example: Toggle the O-N / O-F-F discriminator 30:25 Test example: Run without dependencies 31:53 Test example: Hacked! Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/february-2021/sessions/1725/prerequisites-for-chaos-engineering-the-dirt-on-chaos-engineering-at-google RECOMMENDED BOOKS Aaron 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 #DiRT #Resilience #Observability #BuildingResilience #Resiliency #Programming #SRE #Programming #GameDay #DigitalTransformation #Reliability #RPC #RPCFaultInjection 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