As someone who works closely with distributed systems and microservices, I’ve seen firsthand how complex things can get once Kubernetes, Istio, and service meshes enter the picture. The shift to a cloud-native world is exciting, but it brings new challenges — especially around resilience.

We can’t just hope things won’t fail — because they will. That’s where chaos engineering comes in. It’s a proactive way to build confidence in your system’s ability to handle real-world disruptions by intentionally injecting failure and observing how everything holds up.