Company
Date Published
Author
Jason Yee
Word count
1132
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Gremlin's newsletter discusses the importance of Chaos Engineering for testing and improving system reliability, highlighting Istio's role as a service mesh that enhances network control for Kubernetes workloads. The newsletter explores techniques such as latency and blackhole attacks to assess applications' resilience to network issues and outages. Gremlin's internal practices, like the Gauntlet exercise, are shared to demonstrate the benefits of dynamic, machine learning-based monitoring and the "cattle vs. pets" approach in infrastructure management. The newsletter also introduces Gremlin's new Windows agent, enabling various system attacks, and updates on their pricing model with different packages to accommodate various organizational needs. Additionally, Gremlin emphasizes the importance of learning from failures and encourages users to engage with their Chaos Engineering community for support and education.