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Chaos Experiments - Datacenter Stress Testing#

SREcon25 Americas digest Program Core pick 25–27 March 2025

Recording

Clayton Krueger, USAA — Core

Play the recording: Chaos Experiments - Datacenter Stress Testing

  • Why: Most chaos-engineering practice targets individual applications or services; this is chaos testing applied to an entire datacenter as the blast-radius unit, which is a meaningfully different (and harder) failure-domain scope directly relevant to physical DC operations.
  • What: An account of building a comprehensive, automated, leadership-backed chaos engineering program at a financial services provider, elevated from individual-application testing to whole-datacenter stress testing. (from abstract only)
  • How: Not detailed mechanically in the abstract; framed around the organizational and technical stages of scaling chaos testing to datacenter scope, including overcoming fear/uncertainty/doubt as an adoption barrier. (from abstract only — thin on mechanism)
  • Where applicable: General for organizations with the operational maturity to test at datacenter-wide blast radius; financial-services-specific framing but the scaling journey generalizes.