https://chaos-monkey.com/ Chaos engineering, DevOps resilience, and distributed systems — how production actually breaks, and what reduces the damage when it does. en Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:44:47 +0000 https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/zero-trust-is-not-a-setting/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/zero-trust-is-not-a-setting/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:30:00 +0000 Field Notes Somewhere along the way, security became a checkbox. Firewall? Enabled. VPN? Configured. MFA? Activated. The list gets ticked and the network underneath stays exactly as trusting as it always was. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/drift-happens-in-silence/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/drift-happens-in-silence/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Field Notes No one schedules infrastructure drift. It doesn't arrive with a deployment notification or a calendar invite. It accumulates in the gap between what the code says and what the cluster is actually doing. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/the-night-the-pipeline-stood-still/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/the-night-the-pipeline-stood-still/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0000 Field Notes It doesn't happen loudly. No dramatic outage. No flashing red dashboards. Just a quiet moment when deployments stop, and everything downstream of them quietly starts to queue. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/deploy-at-your-own-risk/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/deploy-at-your-own-risk/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Field Notes Shipping fast feels like winning — until the system disagrees. The teams that ship fastest are rarely the ones taking the most risk; they are the ones who made the consequences of being wrong small enough to survive. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/the-system-will-fail-at-dawn/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/the-system-will-fail-at-dawn/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:30:00 +0000 Field Notes There is a moment before every incident. A quiet second when dashboards still glow green, the queue is still draining, and the thing that will take the system down has already happened. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/when-the-signals-speak/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/when-the-signals-speak/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Field Notes Monitoring tells you something is wrong. Observability tells you why. The difference only matters on the day the failure is one nobody wrote a check for. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/observability-see-the-chaos-before-it-sees-you/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/observability-see-the-chaos-before-it-sees-you/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 Field Notes If your system's in chaos and you're flying blind, you're not just unlucky — you're unprotected. The dashboards are usually there. The question you actually need to ask usually isn't. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/blue-green-deployments-your-safety-net/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/blue-green-deployments-your-safety-net/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Field Notes If you've ever deployed new code only to watch your app crash and burn live, this is for you. Blue-green gives you somewhere to switch back to — as long as the data underneath agrees to come with you. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/eat-the-chaos-automate-the-breakdowns/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/eat-the-chaos-automate-the-breakdowns/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Field Notes Let's get real: the internet doesn't care if your app goes down. The failure modes you have not exercised are the ones that will be discovered by your users, at the least convenient hour available. https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/circuit-breakers-the-panic-button-your-microservices-need/ https://chaos-monkey.com/field-notes/circuit-breakers-the-panic-button-your-microservices-need/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 Field Notes If your system was a spaceship, a circuit breaker would be the big red lever that saves you from total meltdown. What it saves is not the dependency — it is everything still queued behind it.