Chaos engineering has matured beyond Netflix’s original Chaos Monkey project, but what the practice actually means is still in the eye of the beholder. Sixty-three percent of over 400 IT professionals Gremlin surveyed for its “2021 State of Chaos Engineering” have performed a chaos experiment in a dev or test environment, but “only” 34% have done so in production. Isn’t chaos engineering by definition testing production systems?
The overall state of market adoption is definitely lower than this self-selecting sample, but 40% of the study have never conducted a chaos attack before. For context, a 2020 study found that 26% of site reliability engineers used a chaos engineering tool.
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