Gavin Cahill

4 min read

Check out these testing best practices teams should follow to minimize the impact of cloud provider outages so they don’t catch you by surprise.

Test serverless and application-level reliability with Failure Flags

March 13, 2025

Run resilience tests at the application level in serverless, container, Kubernetes, and service mesh environments with Gremlin Failure Flags.

How a major retailer tested critical serverless systems with Failure Flags

March 12, 2025

Find out how Gremlin helped a major retailer test region failover for a critical service built on AWS Lambda using Failure Flags.

Three reliability best practices when using AI agents for coding

February 26, 2025

4 min read

AI agents can help developers move faster, but they can also introduce potential failures into your system. Find out best practices for reliability to keep human and AI errors from causing outages.

Infographic: Resilience and reliability in the cloud

February 25, 2025

Created in partnership with AWS, this infographic shows the impact of outages, the most common causes of outages, and the results companies get from investing in resilience.

What’s the ROI of reliability?

January 13, 2025

Learn how to compute the ROI of a reliability or Chaos Engineering program, including how to quantify the positive impact your efforts created for the company.

Now in private beta: Gremlin Service Mesh Extension

December 4, 2024

Find out how to safely test applications and services behind service meshes with the Gremlin Service Mesh Extension.

How reliability engineering can verify disaster recovery plans

November 5, 2024

Learn how reliability engineering and Gremlin can help test your disaster recovery plans to make sure you’re prepared—and compliant with regulations.

How to verify, document, and prove compliance with Gremlin

August 29, 2024

Find out how Gremlin can help companies in regulated industries comply with Operational Resilience requirements like DORA, APRA CPS230, FCA PS21/3, and more.

What is the Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite?

July 5, 2024

Find out the tests included in Gremlin’s Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite to make it easier than ever to verify your cloud reliability.

Observability and incident response need resilience testing

June 28, 2024

Find out how observability, incident response, and resilience testing work together to help you make your system more reliable, resilient, and available.

Best practices for a resilient AWS architecture

Get best practices based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework for autoscaling, redundancy, dependencies, and more to make your AWS architecture more resilient.

Three roles you need for reliability success

May 7, 2024

Find out who needs to be at the table to make your systems more reliable, improve resilience, and increase the availability of your applications.

How to standardize resiliency on Kubernetes

April 10, 2024

Use this framework to improve Kubernetes resiliency at scale with a combination of organizational standards, resilience testing, and reliability risk monitoring.

10 Most Common Kubernetes Reliability Risks

February 14, 2024

These Kubernetes reliability risks are present in almost every Kubernetes deployment. While many of these are simple configuration errors, all of them can cause failures that take down systems. Make sure that your teams are building processes for detecting these risks so you can resolve them before they cause an outage.

Chaos Engineering and Resilience Testing Tools: Build vs Buy

October 4, 2024

Not sure whether you should build or buy a Fault Injection tool for Chaos Engineering and resilience testing? Check out the pros and cons of building vs buying.

Five trends from SREcon Americas 2023

March 27, 2023

Last week, over five hundred SREs gathered in Santa Clara to share the latest research, tips, tricks, best practices, and more for site reliability engineering. They were joined by some of the biggest names in the reliability space. And, yes, Gremlin was there to answer any and all questions about chaos engineering and proactive reliability.

Reliability best practices: how Gremlin uses Gremlin

August 7, 2023

6 min read

Ensuring software availability is essential for any SaaS company—including Gremlin. To do that, our teams need to identify the reliability risks hiding in our systems. That’s why our development, platform, and SRE teams use Gremlin regularly to perform Chaos Engineering experiments, run reliability tests, and track the reliability of our systems against our standards. Along the way they’ve picked up a thing or two about how to find and fix reliability risks with Gremlin.

Chaos Engineering tools: myth vs. fact

April 4, 2023

With so many Chaos Engineering tools available, it’s no surprise that SRE and platform leaders are doing their homework when choosing a platform to help them build and scale their Chaos Engineering programs. But like anything else you can research on the internet, there’s a lot of noise and hype that you need to wade through.

How to show reliability results to your organization

June 1, 2023

Building momentum for a reliability program can be tough. Improving reliability takes time, effort, and resources. But when everything from launching new features to improving security demands those same resources, it can be a struggle to get the buy-in you need to address reliability risks.

Don’t just react to incidents—prevent them

May 9, 2023

Incident response has been the cornerstone of reliability for decades. From digging in the server logs to navigating modern observability dashboards, responding quickly to incidents and outages is a big part of minimizing downtime. And it should be! When something breaks, your team should move as quickly as possible to address and repair the problem.

Four pillars of a best-in-class reliability program

August 31, 2023

Reliability impacts every organization, whether you plan for it or not. Leading companies take matters into their own hands and get ahead of incidents by building reliability programs. But since many of these programs are still nascent, how do you know what good looks like?

Join Gremlin at AWS re:Invent 2023 and make your AWS infrastructure more reliable

October 6, 2023