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How to set up chaos engineering in your CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI and Chaos Toolkit

Distributed architecture is increasingly being adopted in current software systems because it brings great scalability and flexibility, keeping them resilient under real-world conditions, Unfortunately, this new distribution also introduces new points of failure in the systems. Traditional testing methods are no longer enough; they focus only on whether a system works, not on whether it keeps working under stress or failure. That is where chaos engineering comes in.

How to test Istio and other service meshes

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Service meshes bring applications together, but not always reliably. Even the most well-configured Istio deployment can have unexpected reliability risks that aren’t apparent until you’re already in production. Latency, single points of failure, poorly defined APIs—these problems can grow beyond a single service and impact the user experience for your entire application.