Chaos Engineering - Why Breaking Things Should be Practiced

Explore chaos engineering and its role in building resilient systems in this 42-minute conference talk by Margherita Bonetto, a Solutions Architect at AWS. Delve into the concept of intentionally stressing applications to uncover hidden issues and performance bottlenecks. Learn how to prevent outages by simulating real-world worst-case scenarios. Gain insights into availability and large-scale architectures, and witness a practical demonstration using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to break a microservices system. Discover how this proactive approach can help create more robust and reliable applications in an environment where "everything fails, all the time."