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Date Published
Author
Gremlin
Word count
1623
Language
English
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None

Summary

At Chaos Conf 2019, Joyce Lin, a Lead Developer Advocate at Postman, explored the question of who is responsible for chaos in the context of Chaos Engineering. Lin highlighted that while roles like Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and DevOps are typically associated with managing chaos due to their direct involvement with production and incident management, there is a growing interest among testers to incorporate chaos testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Lin noted that although chaos testing originated from chaos engineering practices like Netflix's Chaos Monkey, the responsibility often falls on those who experience the immediate impact of system failures, such as SREs and Ops teams. She emphasized the importance of organizational buy-in for initiating chaos programs and recognized the evolving landscape where testers and other roles are becoming more involved in chaos testing, aiming to create resilient systems by anticipating and mitigating potential vulnerabilities.