How Pearson improves its resilience with AWS Fault Injection Service
Public Sector Blog
This article discusses how Pearson, a British education company, improved the resilience of its systems by implementing chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). The key points are:
Specifically, the article covers:
- Introduction to chaos engineering and its benefits for improving system reliability
- Pearson's motivation and approach to adopt chaos engineering with FIS
- Solution architecture integrating FIS with Pearson's CI/CD pipelines and observability tools
- Different types of chaos experiments performed by Pearson, such as CPU/memory stress, task interruption, connectivity disruption for services like DynamoDB and S3, and Availability Zone interruption
- Pearson's vision for fully automated chaos engineering and continuous resilience improvements
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