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Date Published
Author
Gavin Cahill
Word count
1239
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Organizations should treat reliability risks with the same proactive approach as security vulnerabilities, employing regular scanning and testing to prevent costly outages before they occur. Despite recognizing the importance of addressing security vulnerabilities to avoid exploitation, many companies overlook reliability risks until they result in incidents or outages, which can be expensive. To mitigate such risks, organizations can use tools like Gremlin to detect common reliability concerns, conduct tests for specific failure modes, and employ Chaos Engineering experiments to identify unique system vulnerabilities. These strategies involve collaboration with service owners to address detected issues and continually test systems to find new risks, ultimately ensuring systems maintain high availability and reliability.