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Thinking about integrating Gremlin into your existing pipeline? Look no farther than the Gremlin API. "The next step then was to build the right tooling such that the resiliency tests can be run from a pipeline. Gremlin's API first approach made it possible to do this in a very easy manner because everything that we could do from the UI and manually, we could replicate all of that through the API as well.

Are you recognizing the good work engineers do to prevent outages? "The people that are out there doing good work to prevent fires from ever occurring, we're not often recognizing them. We're not often rewarding them. And once things go wrong, someone comes in and fixes it. That's great. That's needed. But we're rewarding that behavior. And so it becomes a bit of people are motivated by what behavior you reward.

Did you know you can use the Gremlin API to integrate resiliency tests into your CI/CD pipeline? Our partner Nagarro has even made it part of their shift left package. "What we do is shift left and add a chaos stage to the pipeline. We have created the shift left accelerator package. It integrates with load tests and Gremlin APIs to set up the test scenario.

Gremlin for AWS is a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure. That’s where Gremlin for AWS can help.

Introducing Gremlin for AWS, a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. Gremlin for AWS helps teams prevent incidents, monitor and test systems for known causes of failure, and gain visibility into the reliability posture of their applications—with 90% less effort.

If you want to improve reliability, it has to be important from the top down. "As part of the CTO or leadership owning it, they need to tell folks that it's important in the product roadmap, in some of the development schedule, that we spend time on it, that the CEO is the person that holds people accountable, that they review the metrics, that they sit in the outages, that they understand the quality of the software.

Your reliability measurement can't just be a lagging indicator. "How do you know your company is doing well at reliability? A lot of people will just look at how many outages have you had in the last year and how much customer pain have you caused? I think that's one side of the coin. That's the reactive lagging indicator of the health of our system. To really be good at this, we need a way to understand the risks and the sharp points so that we have an idea of what we're getting into.

•Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Zone failures are rare, but they still happen. When an entire zone fails, many of the most common redundancy techniques fail. How do you avoid outages like these, especially if they affect an entire datacenter?

Check out how a customer integrated standardize testing into their CI/CD pipeline with minimal lift from individual teams.

Reliability and resiliency are getting more and more important. Is your organization ready? "Our digital infrastructure is going to be almost as important as our physical infrastructure. And when it fails, it's going to be a big deal. Like when a huge bank has a multi-day outage, when it impacts travel, safety, military, finance, government, those things are going to be much more important than they have been in the past.