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Meet Steadybit Advice: Your New Chaos Engineering Sidekick
Meet Steadybit Advice: Your New Chaos Engineering Sidekick
Meet Steadybit Advice: Your New Chaos Engineering Sidekick

Meet Advice: Your New Chaos Engineering Sidekick

08.03.2024

Chaos Engineering
Advice
Guidance

Let us introduce you to our newest (and super exciting) brainchild at Steadybit: Advice. It's like having a wise guru in your toolkit.

Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering

How Chaos Engineering Uncovers The Human Factor in Resilience

19.01.2024

Chaos Engineering
Resilience

In a world where digital systems form the backbone of our operations, the emphasis often lies on technical robustness. However, the ability of a team to respond to system failures is equally, if not more, crucial. Chaos engineering, often viewed solely as a technical tool, is a vital platform for team development.

Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering

Top 5 Reasons Companies Should Adopt Chaos Engineering in 2024

07.01.2024

Chaos Engineering

This blog is about why chaos engineering is your go-to move in 2024. It's not just about keeping up with tech trends; it's about building systems tough enough to roll with the punches. Let's dive into how chaos engineering can be your company's ticket to staying resilient and reliable when things get shaky.

Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering
Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering

Steadybit Reveals Pivotal Kubernetes Enhancements in Chaos Engineering

21.12.2023

Kubernetes

Reliability is the cornerstone of user satisfaction in today's world. At Steadybit, we understand the critical nature of this reliability, especially in Kubernetes clusters widely adopted across organizations. We're excited to announce our latest suite of enhancements, designed to empower users to detect and remediate potential risks in their Kubernetes environments proactively.

How to check your resilience4j Circuit Breaker in Real World Environment

16.11.2023

Resilience4J
Development

Two years have passed since my first blog post about Retries with resilience4j, where I promised a second post about Circuit Breakers. There it is!

The Evolution and Implementation of Chaos Engineering

16.11.2023

Chaos Engineering
Real-world Implementations

When milliseconds matter, Chaos Engineering is the difference between a five-star review and a one-star catastrophe. Downtime not only erodes customer trust but also costs businesses millions. This makes Chaos Engineering an essential discipline in today's tech landscape. But what exactly is Chaos Engineering? How does it benefit businesses, and how can it be practically implemented using tools like Steadybit? Let's delve in.

Why Chaos Engineering is a Must for E-Commerce This Holiday Season

16.11.2023

Chaos Engineering
Black Friday
Cyber Monday
Christmas

The holiday season is a high-stakes period for e-commerce businesses, with traffic and sales often surging to yearly highs. While this presents a significant revenue opportunity, it also puts your systems under immense strain. In this environment, preparing with Chaos Engineering is not just an advantage; it's a necessity. Here's why.

Why Chaos Engineering is Essential for Engineering Leaders Ready To Scale with Confidence

16.11.2023

Scaling with Confidence
ROI

Scalability is a crucial concern for any engineering team. As your operations grow, so does the complexity of your systems. How can you ensure robustness and reliability during this vital phase? The answer is Chaos Engineering. This blog delves into why this methodology is a game-changer for engineering leaders guiding their teams through scale.

The Power of Collaboration with Steadybit's Open-Source Chaos Engineering Attacks

16.11.2023

Open Source
Collaboration

We're taking an exciting step into the world of open-source software. The code for Steadybit's Chaos Engineering attacks is now publicly available, offering a new level of transparency and collaboration. But what does this mean for developers and the broader community? Let's delve in.

Launching Explorer - The Companion of Your Chaos Engineering Journey

26.09.2023

Chaos Engineering
System Visualization

Improving your system's reliability can be challenging. Initially, you are looking at a large pile of infrastructure components from a dozen teams. They are all somehow connected, and every piece will fail eventually. While you can use Chaos Engineering to reveal the impact of each failure, you can't predict when a failure will happen. This makes it hard to know where to start and where to continue to keep getting the most value from Chaos Engineering. Also, once you have identified the first findings with Chaos Engineering, you need to check what other components suffer from similar issues.

Unveiling Experiment Schedules: Streamlining Workflows Like Never Before

19.09.2023

Chaos Engineering
Continuous Verification

In our continuous journey to enhance user experience and eliminate bottlenecks, we proudly present our latest addition: Experiment Schedules. A feature designed with both simplicity and flexibility in mind, poised to revolutionize how you manage your experimental workflows.

Unpacking Resilience Engineering with Steadybit’s Co-Founder and CEO, Benjamin Wilms, on the SMC Journal Podcast

22.08.2023

Podcast
LoadRunner
OpenText

We're super excited to share some insights from a recent episode of the SMC Journal podcast featuring none other than our co-founder and CEO, Benjamin Wilms. A deep dive into the realm of performance engineering, this episode unpacks the world of resilience testing, chaos engineering, and, of course, the role Steadybit is playing in all this. 

Driving Business Value with Chaos Engineering: A Decision Maker's Guide

10.08.2023

ROI
Business Impact

By utilizing Steadybit for Chaos Engineering, you not only improve the reliability of your system but also enhance your business's financial resilience and overall success.

Navigating Chaos Engineering: An Actionable Guide for New Practitioners

10.08.2023

Beginners Guide
Chaos Engineering

In this blog post, we'll take a look at how your team can effectively incorporate Chaos Engineering principles into your organization using the Steadybit platform.

Why You Shouldn't Fear Chaos Engineering: A New Approach to Ensuring System Resilience

10.08.2023

Chaos Engineering
Resilience

Discover the benefits of chaos engineering, a proactive approach to identifying weaknesses in software systems. By intentionally introducing controlled failures, developers gain valuable insights into system behavior and can implement measures to prevent catastrophic failures. Chaos engineering improves system resilience, helps identify vulnerabilities, and promotes continuous improvement. Embrace controlled failure and use chaos engineering as a powerful tool in building robust systems.

Unleashing the Power of Chaos Engineering with Steadybit: Insights from Manuel Gerding

10.08.2023

Chaos Engineering
How-To
Webinar

In our most recent webinar, Tailor Chaos Engineering to Scale Your Reliability Journey, our Product Manager Manuel Gerding, discussed how chaos engineering can enhance a system's reliability. The session featured riveting insights on ways to conduct chaos engineering more effortlessly, while demonstrating Steadybit's robust approach to this practice.

Boost your GitOps practices by integrating Chaos Engineering with Steadybit

19.07.2023

Chaos Engineering
GitOps

Learn how to integrate Chaos Engineering into your GitOps practices using Steadybit. We'll shortly cover in this blog post what GitOps is, followed by where you can benefit from integrating Chaos Engineering. Finally, we integrate Chaos Engineering hands-on using the Steadybit CLI and a GitHub action.

Painting Chaos: how our new colour scheme is taking Chaos Engineering to the next level

17.05.2023

Design
UI

Why purple and blue are the new green and yellow: learn how colours have the power to influence our perceptions and emotions, and how the wrong colour can make or break a product. Let's channel our inner Bob Ross and paint some chaos together and see how this small change can make a big difference in the resilience of our systems.

How-to: AWS Lambda Functions Failure Injection with Steadybit

04.05.2023

Extensions
AWS
Lambda Functions
How-To

A step-by-step guide to show how to use the AWS extension to inject failures into AWS Lambda Functions

AWS Lambda Functions Chaos Engineering - Extending Steadybit - Part 3

30.03.2023

Extensions
AWS
Lambda Functions

This article demonstrates how to implement an attack to inject failures for AWS Lambda and integrate it into Steadybit.

AWS Lambda Functions Chaos Engineering - Extending Steadybit - Part 2 - Discovery

30.03.2023

Extensions
AWS
Lambda Functions

This article demonstrates how to implement a discovery for AWS Lambda. This is a prerequisite to inject failures into those.

Datadog Steadybit integration

22.02.2023

Extensions

We have released our integration into Datadog recently. Within Datadog, the Steadybit integration is now available and can be installed. The integration includes a ready-to-go dashboard. Steadybit experiment events can also be inspected in the Datadog event views.

Extending Steadybit - Part 1 - An Overview

16.02.2023

Extensions

You can extend Steadybit to make it a perfect match for your systems. We already provide some OSS extensions. This article will give you an overview of the available extension points.

State of Chaos Engineering 2023

11.1.2023

State of Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering has been around for several years, and the practice has evolved. Within this post, we will look at past and modern interpretations, industry opinions and what we believe to be critical for you to leverage the practice to reach your goals.

Behind the Scenes: Query Language Editor

24.10.2022

Behind the Scenes

The last blog post taught you how to set up a query language lexer and parser using ANTLR. This post will cover making this setup accessible in a user interface.

Behind the Scenes: Query Language Parsing

14.10.2022

Behind the Scenes

In this second part of the query language blog series, we look closely at the implementation of the lexer and parser.

Resilience Testing

10.10.2022

Resilience Testing

This article will look closely at continuous verification with Steadybit through resilience testing and how it helped us internally.

Use Steadybit's Query Language to enhance your experiments

30.09.2022

Behind the Scenes

When managing complex environments it's important to have powerful tools available to keep control. Now, Steadybit enhances the way how to filter targets by introducing the Query Language.

How to build reliable systems under unpredictable conditions

22.09.2022

Chaos Engineering
News

Steadybit wants to change the way outages are handled. Instead of reacting, Steadybit strives for a proactive approach integrated into the development cycle of modern applications.

Chaos Engineering with k6 and Steadybit - There’s more than Performance Testing

19.04.2022

Chaos Engineering
Performance Testing

Since we build software nowadays differently than a couple of years ago, performance testing alone isn't sufficient anymore. Learn how to profit from the synergy of performance testing and Chaos Engineering - a symbiosis of k6 and Steadybit.

Shift Left Resilience and Chaos Engineering to Developers

05.04.2022

Chaos Engineering
Shift Left

If you are also wondering how to shift left Resilience and Chaos Engineering to Developers, you are reading the right article.

See metrics of your chaos experiments in Steadybit with Instana

14.03.2022

Observability

If you run chaos experiments, you certainly want to see how these experiments play out in your monitoring tools - even more so when you run experiments.

For this purpose, Steadybit has the possibility to connect various monitoring tools like New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus and Instana.

Declaring Resilience Expectations

28.02.2022

Chaos Engineering
Resilience Engineering

Is chaos engineering for experts only? No! Learn how we imagine opening up chaos and resilience engineering to wider audiences through declared and reusable expectations!

Who Needs GameDays? Resilience Testing using Testcontainers

22.02.2022

Chaos Engineering
Development

As you may agree, it is important to test your code. The resilience patterns implemented in your application are code (even if they're just a bunch of annotations). Often I saw that this is not tested thoroughly or not at all.

Validate your Kubernetes Resource Limits with Chaos Engineering

08.02.2022

Kubernetes

Do you have defined resource limits for your Kubernetes resources? We hope so! Learn in this post if they are correctly defined and Kubernetes does the expected things when they are reached.

Simulate DNS Outages with Steadybit

02.02.2022

Infrastructure Failures

Did you know that your applications can fail if your DNS fails? In this blog post, we explain the logic behind DNS and how you can experiment with DNS failures in Steadybit.

How to run a Chaos Engineering GameDay

06.01.2022

Chaos Engineering

A GameDay is a collaborative exercise to help you as a team find weaknesses in your system in an exploratory space to improve resilience. We explain what you need to keep in mind.

Retries with resilience4j and how to check in your Real World Environment

17.12.2021

Resilience4J
Development

Do you know resilience4j? You definitely should, if you like to build fault tolerant applications. This blog post is about the retry mechanism and how to check its functionality in real world.

How to See Metrics of Your Chaos Experiments in Steadybit With New Relic

17.12.2021

Observability

If you run chaos experiments, you certainly want to see how these experiments play out in your monitoring tools; of course at the same time when you run your experiments. For this purpose, Steadybit can connect various monitoring tools. These include Instana, Prometheus, Datadog and New Relic. In this blog post, you learn how to set up the connection to New Relic.

The Evolution of Chaos Engineering

17.11.2021

Chaos Engineering

In the last few years a lot has happened in the field of Chaos Engineering. From the originally radical new approach of intentionally causing errors and failures, a large community has emerged. The principles have been refined and the popularity of Chaos Engineering is growing.

How to validate your Kubernetes Liveness Probes with Chaos Engineering

17.12.2021

Kubernetes

In this blog post, we'll take a look at what Liveness Probes are for in the first place and how we can use steadybit to verify that they are working correctly.

How Healthy Are We? An Interview With Nora Jones – Founder and CEO of Jeli.io

17.12.2021

Social Chaos Engineering

October is Mental Health Awareness Month. WHO wants to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health visible. Speaking of mental health in the tech industry, especially in the environment of Chaos Engineering: What mental processes do we go through before tool decisions are made and Chaos Engineering processes can be successfully established? Let's look at Resilience Engineering on a human level: What do we need as a team to function well and build a Culture of Resilience? We think creating a healthy system and ensuring the health of the team requires looking at the people behind the code. That's why we asked Nora, founder and CEO of Jeli.io, who is focusing on the human factor in Chaos Engineering: What do companies need to change in the future so that teams can build a culture of resilience and sleep soundly at night?

Harden Performance of REST calls using Spring WebFlux

17.12.2021

Spring
Development

Do you have sequential REST calls in your code? If so, how do they behave when the network is slow? Don't know yet? Let’s learn together and cover how easy we can improve our code using Spring WebFlux when fetching data from multiple independent REST endpoints.

See metrics of your chaos experiments in Steadybit with Prometheus

17.12.2021

Observability

If you run chaos experiments, you certainly want to see how these experiments play out in your monitoring tools – of course at the same time when you run the experiments. For this purpose steadybit has the possibility to connect various monitoring tools. These include Instana, New Relic, Datadog and Prometheus.

How to measure the benefits of Chaos Engineering

17.12.2021

Chaos Engineering

Have you ever asked yourself on how to measure the steady state of your system while doing Chaos Engineering. This blog post is a good starting point.

The next Level of Chaos Engineering Experiments

17.12.2021

Chaos Engineering

The real world is complicated - especially true for distributed systems. This pushed steadybit's experiment engine to their limits when trying to represent the real world (AKA production) in a very simple experiment. In this blog post, we'll unleash a firework of new experiment features that address these shortcomings - and are already loved by many of our users.

If you are not doing Chaos Engineering, you are losing money

17.12.2021

Chaos Engineering

Everyone knows that the downtime of systems costs money and one would prefer to avoid it at all costs. Chaos Engineering is always mentioned as a possible solution. But is it really worth it? That's why we want to talk about numbers today.

A common Pitfall of Spring Boot's RestTemplate

17.12.2021

Spring
Development

One of the most fundamental advantages of Spring Boot is the paradigm of convention over configuration reducing the overhead heavily. Even so, there is a tiny pitfall in the default behavior of Spring Boot's RestTemplateBuilder that is probably not what you are really aiming for. So, be sure that you have configured it manually.

Problem first: User Centricity at Steadybit

17.12.2021

Behind the Scenes

To build successful products, you can't get past user-centricity. Especially true for a product-based startup like steadybit. This blog post covers how we work at steadybit and how we put our users first. It tells our story from the founding vision to an amazing product to be used and why you can expect to see a shift in the product coming in the following months.

Top 3 Kubernetes Weak Spots affecting your Availability

17.12.2021

Kubernetes

This blog post gives you an overview of the top 3 weak spots in Kubernetes and demonstrates an example to show how Chaos Engineering can be used to validate whether one's cluster can withstand turbulent conditions in practice.

Testing Exception Handling of Spring's REST Controllers

17.12.2021

Spring
Development

This blog post gives you an effortless way to test whether your exception handling of Spring Boot's RestTemplate is working. In order to do so we leverage Chaos Engineering and this way can prevent the unattractive path of mocking a part of your system or cumbersome manual testing effort.

How to survive an AWS zone outage

17.12.2021

Cloud Failures
AWS

The use of cloud services, such as AWS, Azure or GCP, helps us to make software available to our customers in a short time. The resources can be used on demand and are often more cost-effective than hosting your own data center. But a cloud has some special characteristics that need to be considered. For example, individual components may be scaled dynamically and a single server may be replaced by a new server or similar.

Continuously Verify Your Startup Times, so You Won’t Be Surprised Badly.

17.12.2021

Kubernetes

In this post we will discuss why it is important to have application start fast and how you can validate this continuously.