Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure

@article{Robbins2012ResilienceEL,
  title={Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure},
  author={Jesse Robbins and Kripa Krishnan and John Allspaw and Thomas A. Limoncelli},
  journal={Queue},
  year={2012},
  volume={10},
  pages={20 - 28}
}
In the early 2000s, Amazon created GameDay, a program designed to increase resilience by purposely injecting major failures into critical systems semi-regularly to discover flaws and subtle dependencies. Basically, a GameDay exercise tests a company’s systems, software, and people in the course of preparing for a response to a disastrous event. Widespread acceptance of the GameDay concept has taken a few years, but many companies now see its value and have started to adopt their own versions… 
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