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Gremlin announces Services Discovery for tracking and improving the reliability of distributed services. Gremlin is the enterprise Chaos Engineering platform on a mission to help build a more reliable internet. Their solutions turn failure into resilience by offering engineers a fully hosted SaaS platform to safely experiment on complex systems, in order to identify weaknesses before they impact customers and cause revenue loss.

In this lightning talk, Liv Balderas (Customer Success Manager @ Gremlin) shares how to reduce MTTD by practicing Chaos Engineering.

Chaos Engineering in 60 seconds - Scheduled Shutdown Attack. This is commonly referred to as a Chaos Monkey style attack.

In this video, we will demonstrate how to use Gremlin and Jenkins to create an automated Chaos Gauntlet. This will be done using Jenkins Pipelines and Stages to inject a controlled amount of failure with the Gremlin API. We then add a final stage that allows you to optionally halt the attack from the pipeline, rather than having to wait for the full duration of the attack.

Serverless enabled us to build highly distributed applications that led to more granular functions and ultimate scalability. However, it also brought the risk of failure from a single microservice to many serverless functions and resources. You might be able to predict and design for certain troublesome issues but there are many, many more that you probably will not be able to easily plan for. How do you build a resilient system under these highly distributed circumstances? The answer is Chaos Engineering: Breaking things on purpose just to experience how the whole system will react.