https://severinbucher.com/tags/middleware/Recent content in Middleware on Severin Bucher | BlogHugoenFri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/introducing-a-baby-chaos-monkey-for-our-microservices/Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/introducing-a-baby-chaos-monkey-for-our-microservices/<p>In a microservice system, the only real way to know how resilient you are is to break things on purpose and watch what happens. That&rsquo;s the idea behind chaos engineering. Netflix&rsquo;s Chaos Monkey is the famous example: it randomly kills services in production so the team finds out early whether the system can take it.</p> <p>Killing live services is overkill for most teams, especially outside production, but the underlying idea is worth borrowing. So we added a small piece of middleware to one of our services: a manually triggered, route-level failure tool that acts like a baby Chaos Monkey.</p>