Looking Back to Look Forward - Deprecating Simplicity, Building a New Test Culture

Explore chaos engineering as a method for uncovering hidden issues, monitoring blind spots, and performance bottlenecks in modern, distributed systems. Delve into lessons learned from years of helping customers implement chaos engineering and discover how these experiences have influenced the development of the new AWS Fault Injection Simulator. Learn about GameDay, a technique for creating resiliency through destruction, and understand how to build intuition in complex systems. Gain insights into the latest advancements in chaos engineering, making it accessible to a broader audience beyond deep expertise. This 22-minute conference talk, presented by Adrian Hornsby, Principal Technical Evangelist at AWS, at GOTOpia February 2021, offers valuable knowledge for professionals interested in improving system resilience and performance.