Why You Should Stop Hoarding Metrics

By Dustin Ward

Serverless lets you deploy applications far away in a data center of a cloud provider. This relieves you of the lion’s share of operational burdens. The more you buy into your cloud provider’s ecosystem, the less you have to do yourself: no more OS updates or database bugfix installations.  But you still need to do some operation-related work on…

Perform Chaos Testing on your Amazon Aurora Cluster

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedPerform Chaos Testing on your Amazon Aurora Cluster “Everything fails all the time” Werner Vogels, AWS CTO In 2010, Netflix introduced a tool called “Chaos Monkey”, that was used for introducing faults in a production environment. Chaos Monkey led to the birth of Chaos engineering where teams test their live applications by purposefully injecting faults.…