Chaos testing in profile: what does your service really depend on?

The most important words before peak season: “Our service is rock-solid. It doesn’t depend on other services, so we’ll easily survive if they degrade.” Sounds sweet. Until you try it.

In this talk, I’ll tell you how, one day, I started questioning that assumption, opened Pandora’s box — and what happened next. We’ll look at the story of introducing a new approach, reassessing our dependencies, and how to keep your service from becoming the Titanic when it meets its iceberg.