In a podcast episode of "Break Things on Purpose," hosts Rich Burroughs and Jacob Plicque from Gremlin engage in a discussion with Adrian Hornsby, a Senior Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, about Chaos Engineering and its role in enhancing system resiliency. Hornsby shares his journey into Chaos Engineering, tracing its roots to his childhood curiosity and professional experiences, including his work at Nokia Research and AWS. The conversation highlights the significance of Chaos Engineering in identifying systemic weaknesses and improving reliability through controlled experiments, often drawing parallels with methodologies like the scientific method and Game Days. The discussion also emphasizes the importance of organizational buy-in, the challenges of advocating for resilience, and the practical steps of implementing Chaos Engineering, such as forming hypotheses and continuous testing. Hornsby stresses the necessity of conducting experiments in a controlled manner, building intuition through practice, and ensuring that learnings from experiments are acted upon to prevent future outages, underscoring the broader goal of maintaining customer trust and system reliability.