Chaos Engineering at Startup Scale

1. The Version of This That Is Affordable

Chaos engineering has a reputation problem at small companies, built on the image of a tool that randomly destroys production infrastructure, maintained by a dedicated team nobody has.

The underlying idea is much smaller than that, and it is the same idea as the drills from the multi-region module.

Every resilience mechanism you have is a hypothesis until it has been observed working. The timeout, the fallback, the retry budget, the replica promotion, the degraded mode