Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Mikolaj Pawlikowski, Engineering Lead at Bloomberg

In a podcast episode of "Break Things on Purpose," Mikolaj Pawlikowski, Engineering Lead at Bloomberg and author of "Chaos Engineering: Site Reliability Through Controlled Disruption," discusses the importance of Chaos Engineering in understanding and improving system reliability. Pawlikowski explains how this approach evolved from his experiences with Kubernetes and emphasizes the value of simulating failures to proactively address potential system issues. He highlights the importance of simple Chaos Engineering experiments, like using strace and eBPF for observability, which can help in validating monitoring systems and improving resilience. Pawlikowski's book aims to demystify Chaos Engineering, showing its applicability across various tech stacks, and argues that it should not be seen as exclusive to large-scale systems like those of Netflix or Google. He stresses the need for starting with simple Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and iterating on them to improve reliability, and he notes a broader industry shift towards viewing Chaos Engineering as a standard practice rather than a niche or gimmicky approach.

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