Experiments in Chaos

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Benjamin Wilms hosts "Experiments in Chaos" -- a Steadybit podcast that brings together experts in software systems reliability to discuss how to incorporate resilience practices like chaos engineering to foster a organizational culture of reliability.

Episodes

  1. Preparing for the Chaos of Agentic Systems with Jessica Kerr

    12/10/2025

    Preparing for the Chaos of Agentic Systems with Jessica Kerr

    In this episode, Benjamin Wilms sat down with Jessica Kerr, an Engineering Manager of Developer Relations at Honeycomb, to discuss the impact of new AI agents on software systems. They explore why organizations are not ready to handle this new complexity and how they will need to shift their thinking for this new paradigm. Lastly, Ben and Jessica discuss how AI will likely impact observability, the role of chaos engineering in validating agents, and how iterative learning can benefit both team members and agents.

    36 min
  2. Rolling Out Chaos Engineering with Tom Handal

    10/15/2025

    Rolling Out Chaos Engineering with Tom Handal

    "Experiments in Chaos" is a Steadybit podcast that brings together experts in software systems reliability to discuss how to incorporate resilience practices like chaos engineering to foster a culture of reliability. In this episode, Benjamin Wilms sat down with Tom Handal, a Sr. Principal SRE at Roblox, to discuss how chaos engineering can help improve the reliability and resilience of large-scale systems. Tom shares how he overcame initial hesitation by aligning with existing processes and winning over teams by sharing experiment findings. Lastly, Ben and Tom discuss how AI will likely impact the future of reliability and chaos engineering.

    50 min
  3. Enabling Reliability in the Cloud with Carlos Rojas

    07/14/2025

    Enabling Reliability in the Cloud with Carlos Rojas

    In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Carlos Rojas, author of "Resilience Engineering for the Cloud", about DevOps vs. platform engineering, the roles and responsibilities related to reliability, and the new trends that will be making an impact for organizations in the next six months. You can connect with Carlos Rojas on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carojas77/ You can also order a copy of the book, "Reliability Engineering in the Cloud", here: https://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Engineering-Cloud-Strategies-Cloud-Based/dp/0135395798

    40 min
  4. Putting Chaos Engineering to Work with Casey Rosenthal

    06/04/2025

    Putting Chaos Engineering to Work with Casey Rosenthal

    In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Casey Rosenthal, "The Chaos Engineering Guy", about what it takes to develop a proactive approach to reliability. First, Casey shares his experience at Netflix redefining and evangelizing chaos engineering and how he was able to communicate its value to leaders in the Finance and Healthcare industries. Then, he shares his perspective on how many popular reliability approaches are provably wrong, and the importance of developing a methodology of Continuous Verification. To wrap, Ben and Casey briefly discuss how AIs and LLMs could impact the reliability space and where there could be more hype than value.

    47 min
  5. Embracing Psychological Safety with Russell Miles

    05/06/2025

    Embracing Psychological Safety with Russell Miles

    In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Russell Miles, an expert in software reliability and residuality. They discuss how to build a culture around reliability, the importance of creating psychological safety, and why embracing failure is at the heart of true learning.

    1h 1m
  6. Tackling the Prevention Paradox with Adrian Hornsby

    04/28/2025

    Tackling the Prevention Paradox with Adrian Hornsby

    In episode 1 of "Experiments in Chaos", Benjamin Wilms sits down with Adrian Hornsby, a leading expert in the chaos engineering space to discuss common mistakes, best practices, and the future of the practice.

    48 min
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Benjamin Wilms hosts "Experiments in Chaos" -- a Steadybit podcast that brings together experts in software systems reliability to discuss how to incorporate resilience practices like chaos engineering to foster a organizational culture of reliability.

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  • Creator
    Steadybit GmbH
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  • Episodes
    6
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    © Steadybit GmbH 2025
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