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SRE vs DevOps: Can they coexist or do they compete?

Systems fail, sometimes publicly and at great cost. Airlines have experienced system-wide ticketing outages, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and significant inconvenience to customers. Retailers have experienced website crashes on the busiest shopping days of the year, costing millions in lost revenue and customer goodwill. It is vital to understand both DevOps and SRE and the roles they play in preventing such outages.

Getting Started with Gremlin Attacks

Gremlin provides a variety of ways to test the resilience of your systems, which we call "attacks". Running different attacks lets you uncover unexpected behaviors, validate resilience mechanisms, and improve the overall reliability of your systems and services. This ebook explains each of Gremlin's attacks in complete detail, including what each attack does, how it impacts your systems, and the technical and business objectives the attack helps solve.

Chaos Engineering: Finding Failures Before They Become Outages

Learn the basics of Chaos Engineering: discover the tools, tests, and culture needed to create better software and prevent outages and downtime. This whitepaper provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline of Chaos Engineering including why it is more needed than ever, how to get started, and best practices to maximize learnings and reduce risk.

How to Implement Chaos Engineering at Your Company

By following this guide, you'll successfully increase your organization's reliability with minimal effort and risk. This document will serve as your guide to implementing Chaos Engineering and Gremlin within your organization. From educating your team on the principles of Chaos Engineering to running automated experiments, this guide will walk through each stage of the adoption process in order to ensure a smooth and successful rollout.

Chaos Engineering for DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is fast, powerful, and intended for high availability. These are all valuable attributes in a data storage solution, but to be useful as advertised, it must be configured thoughtfully. Learn how to use Chaos Engineering to ensure DynamoDB performs the way you expect. In this guide, we cover: Amazon DynamoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases and is the data store of choice for many teams running production workloads in AWS.

How to Convince Your Organization to Adopt Chaos Engineering

Win over and convince your coworkers and management to explore and adopt Chaos Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The playbook provides ideas and techniques that can be used to articulate the need and benefits to internal stakeholders in your organization. It also guides the initial implementation in a way that will lead to success and growth across the organization. Implementing something new like Chaos Engineering successfully is a good way to get promoted and help the organization succeed, and this guide is here to help you.

Chaos Engineering for MongoDB

MongoDB is designed for performance, scale, and high-availability. But, as with any software, you need to test your configuration to verify that it will work as advertised. Ensure that MongoDB performs the way you expect by using Chaos Engineering to test four key features. This guide includes four experiment tutorials to verify that MongoDB will perform reliably: In order to ensure you get the most out of MongoDB's rich features, including built-in data sharding and replication, it's crucial to test your configuration.