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Over the years, Chaos Engineering has proven its effectiveness time and time again, uncovering risks and saving companies millions they would have lost in painful, brand-impacting outages. But as Chaos Engineering adoption increased, we found organizations running into the same stumbling blocks when they tried to scale. Individual teams would get great results with Chaos Engineering, then stall as they tried to get more teams involved.

5 minutes. That’s how much downtime some of the world’s largest enterprises will tolerate. For most organizations, five nines (99.999%) of availability sounds like a pipedream. But the trick to increasing availability isn’t massive infrastructure spending or complex system redesigns. All it takes are three key practices that any team can adopt and implement. In this post, we’ll present these practices and how we implement them at Gremlin.