Introduction
Harness’s fourth annual Chaos Carnival, featuring prominent keynote speakers, hands-on chaos testing opportunities, and a focus on building resilience through chaos engineering, offers a unique platform for professionals to gain insights, practical knowledge, and networking opportunities in the evolving landscape of chaos engineering. Read the full announcement here.
Key Takeaways from Chaos Carnival 2024
I attended the Harness fourth annual Chaos Carnival, a global two-day virtual event focused on all things chaos engineering. The conference brought together industry leaders, keynote speakers, and chaos engineering experts to share insights and experiences in building resilient systems.
Harness stands out as a comprehensive continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform designed to enhance software delivery processes for modern enterprises. With a commitment to streamlining the entire software lifecycle, Harness offers a powerful and user-friendly interface that simplifies the management of software releases, deployments, and rollbacks. The Harness UI is a key component of this platform, providing an intuitive and easy-to-use experience for users. Despite its simplicity, the UI doesn’t compromise on robust features and capabilities crucial for effective software release management. The organization of the Harness UI into distinct areas facilitates seamless interaction, allowing users to effortlessly view and manage account and profile information, access subscription details, and navigate through various modules essential for optimizing the software delivery pipeline. Harness ensures that users can harness the full potential of their CI/CD workflows with a platform that combines user-friendliness with advanced functionalities.
The Chaos Carnival, a recently concluded event, brought together a host of high-profile keynote speakers to discuss various aspects of chaos engineering. Among the speakers were Jyoti Bansal, Founder, and CEO of Harness, Raj Thomas, Principal Enterprise Architect at United Airlines, Nicolas Chaillan, Founder of Ask Sage and Former Chief Software Officer of U.S. Air Force and Space Force, and Vidhu Bhala RV, Vice President of QA and Delivery and Efficiency at Standard Chartered Bank.
The event’s keynotes covered an array of urgent topics, including the adoption of chaos engineering practices, leveraging chaos for product launches, learning from shift-left reliability, and implementing chaos engineering throughout the developer lifecycle. Attendees gained valuable insights into these topics from the perspective of industry experts, enabling them to improve their abilities in this area.
Chaos Testing for Everyone
Chaos Carnival was an exceptional event that brought together developers, SREs, product managers, CEOs, and other professionals interested in exploring chaos testing. This event created a controlled environment on Kubernetes where attendees could learn about chaos engineering and build resilience in their applications. Participants were able to run various types of chaos tests, including network failures, disk I/O errors, and CPU spikes, among others. They gained valuable hands-on experience and were able to apply what they learned directly to their work. Additionally, attendees had the opportunity to pursue a new Harness chaos engineering certification course, which helped them further advance their skills and knowledge in this field. Overall, Chaos Carnival was an excellent forum for anyone looking to enhance their understanding of chaos engineering and its applications.
Building Resilience Through Chaos
The Chaos Carnival 2024 conference has a central theme of “Build Resilience Through Chaos” and aims to showcase how chaos engineering practices can help create a new generation of resilient systems. Such systems allow developers to focus on innovation instead of troubleshooting system failures. The conference attendees demonstrated how to adopt or scale chaos engineering practices and build more resilient systems.
One of the highlights of the event was the Day 1 keynote by Adrian Cockcroft, who shared his journey from Netflix to AWS. Attendees gained insights into how Harness SREs use chaos engineering to ensure customer SLAs are met, which demonstrated the practical applications of chaos testing in real-world scenarios.
Looking Ahead
I found Chaos Carnival 2024 to provide a valuable experience for professionals across the spectrum, offering insights, practical applications, and networking opportunities in the evolving landscape of chaos engineering. Attendees learned the tools to enhance the resilience of their systems and embrace chaos engineering practices for continuous improvement.
Overall, the Chaos Carnival was an informative and valuable event that provided attendees with a deeper understanding of the benefits and best practices of chaos engineering. In the future, Harness aims to continue evolving as a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform for modern enterprises. Focusing on enhancing software delivery processes, Harness plans to advance its user-friendly interface to offer even more robust features and capabilities for managing the entire software lifecycle. The platform’s trajectory includes further optimization of the UI, ensuring it remains intuitive while accommodating the evolving needs of users. Additionally, Harness envisions staying at the forefront of technological advancements, contributing to the seamless integration of CI/CD workflows, and providing innovative solutions for efficient software release management. The future for Harness involves a commitment to continuous improvement, empowering users with a comprehensive and cutting-edge CI/CD platform.
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At The Futurum Group, Paul Nashawaty, Practice Leader and Lead Principal Analyst, specializes in application modernization across build, release and operations. With a wealth of expertise in digital transformation initiatives spanning front-end and back-end systems, he also possesses comprehensive knowledge of the underlying infrastructure ecosystem crucial for supporting modernization endeavors. With over 25 years of experience, Paul has a proven track record in implementing effective go-to-market strategies, including the identification of new market channels, the growth and cultivation of partner ecosystems, and the successful execution of strategic plans resulting in positive business outcomes for his clients.
