Chaos engineering

Verica Announces The Verica Open Incident Database (The VOID) to Bring Transparency to Software-Based Failures and Outages

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Verica , the company using Chaos Engineering to make systems more secure and less vulnerable to costly incidents, today announced the launch of The Verica Open Incident Database (the VOID).

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  • Verica , the company using Chaos Engineering to make systems more secure and less vulnerable to costly incidents, today announced the launch of The Verica Open Incident Database (the VOID).
  • The VOID makes public incident reports available to everyone in a single place in order to generate new, stronger questions and community discussion about how to tackle software-based failures and outages.
  • By launching the VOID we are bringing the public more transparency and information sharing about software-based failures and outages, said Courtney Nash, Senior Research Analyst at Verica.
  • Were thrilled to announce a project that increases transparency and information sharing about software-based failures and outages.

ChaosNative announces the launch of the second edition of their virtual Chaos Engineering conference, ChaosCarnival 2022, and introduces free monthly community workshops on Chaos Engineering for DevOps

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ChaosCarnival, the platform to share everything about Chaos Engineering is back. The first edition of the Carnival was a resounding success with the participation of popular speakers from Operations, Development, Chaos Engineering vendor companies, and LitmusChaos community. The second edition is happening on 27th & 28th January 2022. Apart from the expected great sessions from speakers all over the globe, the conference will host a panel discussion and four Chaos Engineering workshops on Chaos for SLO-based operations, Chaos for Developers, Chaos in CI/CD, and Chaos APIs.

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  • Apart from the expected great sessions from speakers all over the globe, the conference will host a panel discussion and four Chaos Engineering workshops on Chaos for SLO-based operations, Chaos for Developers, Chaos in CI/CD, and Chaos APIs.
  • The call for papers (CFPs) is now open for SREs, chaos practitioners, chaos tools developers, and anyone interested in sharing their experiences with Chaos Engineering.
  • "Chaos Engineering has grown tremendously in the last few years, as evidenced by the emergence of new tools, services, and companies.
  • In another announcement, ChaosNative also now offers free monthly workshops on Cloud Native Chaos Engineering.

Gremlin Announces Automatic Service Discovery for More Targeted and Effective Chaos Engineering

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

b"Gremlin , the leading Chaos Engineering platform helping companies improve resilience and reduce downtime, today announces Automatic Service Discovery at FailoverConf .

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  • b"Gremlin , the leading Chaos Engineering platform helping companies improve resilience and reduce downtime, today announces Automatic Service Discovery at FailoverConf .
  • The new feature from Gremlin automatically identifies the various services running across distributed systems, which enables engineers to directly target them for more effective Chaos Engineering experiments.\nThis press release features multimedia.
  • (Graphic: Business Wire)\n\xe2\x80\x9cWhen we started Gremlin our primary focus was on the underlying infrastructure, helping customers answer questions like, 'Can we handle server crashes?'
  • The owner of the service can also include links to runbooks for remediation and any associated dashboards for deeper observability.

ChaosNative Launches to Accelerate Litmus Adoption in Enterprises

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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

"I'm really proud of the success of the LitmusChaos project," said Evan Powell, CEO of MayaData.

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  • "I'm really proud of the success of the LitmusChaos project," said Evan Powell, CEO of MayaData.
  • Litmus works with ArgoCD or flux
    Uma Mukkara, the founding CEO of ChaosNative, said: "The LitmusChaos project has grown quickly from its roots in the OpenEBS community and since becoming a CNCF project.
  • The second day keynote from Uma Mukkara will cover the ChaosNative plan to tackle the challenges around resilience for cloud native applications for enterprises.
  • MayaData founded two CNCF projects, OpenEBS the #1 open-source container attached storage solution and Litmus the #1 Kubernetes native chaos engineering project, which is now led by the MayaData spin-off ChaosNative.

Gremlin Unlocks Their Full Library of Chaos Engineering Experiments, Also Releases the First-Ever State of Chaos Engineering Report

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Today also marks the fifth year anniversary of the companys founding, over which time the interest and demand for Chaos Engineering has grown significantly, represented in the first ever State of Chaos Engineering report.

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  • Today also marks the fifth year anniversary of the companys founding, over which time the interest and demand for Chaos Engineering has grown significantly, represented in the first ever State of Chaos Engineering report.
  • The data sources for the first-ever State of Chaos Engineering report include a comprehensive survey with 500+ responses, combined with Gremlins platform data.
  • Chaitanya Krant, Engineering Manager at the National Australia Bank (NAB), writes that Gremlin makes Chaos Engineering easy and seamless.
  • Sign up for Gremlin Free: https://www.gremlin.com/gremlin-free-software
    Read the State of Chaos Engineering 2020 report: www.gremlin.com/state-of-ce/2021
    Gremlin is the worlds first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet.

Introducing Chaos Carnival, a virtual conference focused on all things Chaos Engineering

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The conference is a vendor-neutral event, dedicated to bringing together practitioners, experts, innovators and industry leaders that are shaping the Chaos Engineering and Cloud-native ecosystem.

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  • The conference is a vendor-neutral event, dedicated to bringing together practitioners, experts, innovators and industry leaders that are shaping the Chaos Engineering and Cloud-native ecosystem.
  • Chaos Carnival is also on the lookout for talk submissions on a wide range of topics from Chaos Engineering to introducing chaos in the DevOps environment.
  • We launched Chaos Carnival to celebrate the rise of chaos engineering and to promote open source methods and tools in this space.
  • Focusing primarily on chaos engineering and related topics, this conference has secured sponsorships from CNCF, Elastic, Wipro, and Percona in the initial phase.

Introducing Chaos Carnival, a virtual conference focused on all things Chaos Engineering

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The conference is a vendor-neutral event, dedicated to bringing together practitioners, experts, innovators and industry leaders that are shaping the Chaos Engineering and Cloud-native ecosystem.

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  • The conference is a vendor-neutral event, dedicated to bringing together practitioners, experts, innovators and industry leaders that are shaping the Chaos Engineering and Cloud-native ecosystem.
  • Chaos Carnival is also on the lookout for talk submissions on a wide range of topics from Chaos Engineering to introducing chaos in the DevOps environment.
  • We launched Chaos Carnival to celebrate the rise of chaos engineering and to promote open source methods and tools in this space.
  • Focusing primarily on chaos engineering and related topics, this conference has secured sponsorships from CNCF, Elastic, Wipro, and Percona in the initial phase.

Founded by Chaos Engineering Pioneer, Jeli.io Launches First Incident Analysis Platform With $4 Million in Funding

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Monday, December 7, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at SREcon20 Americas, Jeli.io formally launched and unveiled the first incident analysis platform.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at SREcon20 Americas, Jeli.io formally launched and unveiled the first incident analysis platform.
  • Jeli gives companies the visibility and critical focus to ensure their chaos engineering and incident response practices continue to optimize.
  • She pioneered chaos engineering in 2017, created and founded the https://www.learningfromincidents.io movement and co-authored two OReilly books on chaos engineering.
  • Jeli.io is an incident analysis platform company that allows users to not only address incidents but learn everything they can from them.

10KMedia Adds ‘Kintaba’ as its Latest Premier Client: A Best-In-Class Incident Management Platform Founded by Former Facebook Engineers

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Monday, December 7, 2020

Kintaba , the incident management platform helping companies resolve major outages faster by automating plans and processes, today becomes a client of 10KMedia , a PR agency hyper-focused on premier DevOps startups.

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  • Kintaba , the incident management platform helping companies resolve major outages faster by automating plans and processes, today becomes a client of 10KMedia , a PR agency hyper-focused on premier DevOps startups.
  • 10KMedia also represents the commercial Chaos Engineering solution Gremlin , founded by engineers from Amazon and Netflix; the Modern Observability platform Lightstep , founded by engineers from Google; and the rapid debugging startup Rookout , based out of Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  • The name Kintaba comes from the Japanese art where golden inlay is used to repair broken pottery.
  • After the incident is reported, Kintaba also provides streamlined process and tooling for effectively responding to, mitigating, and ultimately learning from the incident to better avoid a recurrence.

Gremlin Soundproofs Kubernetes by Helping DevOps Teams Isolate Noisy Neighbors Within a Cluster

San Jose, CA, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gremlin , a platform for safely and securely running Chaos Engineering experiments, today announced new features to soundproof Kubernetes and help engineers prevent noisy neighbors in a cluster.

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  • San Jose, CA, Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gremlin , a platform for safely and securely running Chaos Engineering experiments, today announced new features to soundproof Kubernetes and help engineers prevent noisy neighbors in a cluster.
  • According to recent Kubernetes Adoption Research , 59% of large organizations use Kubernetes in production, which mirrors the distribution of companies running chaos attacks on the Gremlin platform.
  • Were providing DevOps teams with better tooling to understand how their Kubernetes applications will behave under various stresses, such as when a neighboring container is spiking with traffic.
  • Using namespace access control ensures that only team members with correct permissions will have access to specific Kubernetes objects, versus all objects in the cluster.