The podcast episode "Break Things on Purpose" explores the field of Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus, CEO and co-founder of Gremlin. Andrus shares his extensive experience in building Chaos Engineering tools at Amazon and Netflix, emphasizing the importance of deliberately causing failures to improve system reliability. He discusses the role of a call leader in incident management, detailing the educational value of participating in incident reviews and the challenges of configuration management in complex systems. The conversation touches on the development of tools like FIT at Netflix and the concept of Lineage Driven Fault Injection (LDFI), which maps service dependencies to identify potential failure points. Andrus advocates for cultural shifts in organizations to embrace testing in production environments to anticipate and mitigate system failures, ultimately aiming for a more reliable internet experience.