Gremlin was born out of its founders' time at Netflix and Amazon. Now, it wants to help every company embrace Chaos Engineering.
On Wednesday, the startup Gremlin launched a free tool that allows engineers to purposely and automatically break their software and cloud infrastructure — which it champions as the best way to test for vulnerabilities and weak points.
Netflix is famous in software circles for its philosophy of Chaos Engineering — a principle that holds the best way to test the durability of cloud infrastructure is to purposely try to destroy it and see how it holds up. Andrus says that for Gremlin's next act, he wants to remove the barriers to letting companies try Chaos Engineering out for themselves. Customers benefit from having such a good sense of their software's weaknesses, he says, but don't always want to make the investment. By releasing a free version of Gremlin, it removes those barriers.
Proactively finding out about vulnerabilities can prevent expensive system downtime, which Gartner estimates can cost. Andrus says that he hears from customers that Chaos Engineering isn't right for them, but that they want to find some way to improve their system's resilience. That being said, Andrus learned important concepts that have influenced Gremlin's product decision today. At Amazon, Andrus learned to build a good self-service tool that carried a user interface that made developers want to use it, even if it wasn't mandatory.
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