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CHAOS ENGINEERING PRACTICES TO INCREASE CONFIDENCE AND RELIABILITY

engineering.monday.com5 min read

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Instead of hoping random failures expose weaknesses, the Monday team injects controlled failures in staging, such as network partitions, pod kills, and DNS outages. This practice paid off fast, as what they thought was a working circuit breaker actually hung for 30 seconds and crashed under a simulated network partition, which was caught and fixed the same day.