Introducing Google Cloud Fault Injection Testing (FIT) in preview
When databases fail and network paths falter, you still need your mission-critical cloud services to stay online. Yet guaranteeing high availability has become increasingly difficult because of the complexity of modern distributed systems.
To help you maintain availability and reliability during adverse events, we’re announcing Google Cloud Fault Injection Testing (FIT) in preview. FIT is designed to help developers and architects automate failure testing to ensure predictable behavior during disruptions.
By deliberately introducing faults into your environment, you can verify your safety mechanisms before an actual outage impacts your customers.
Why native resilience testing matters
Unlike in self-hosted data centers, cloud applications offer less direct access to underlying infrastructure to facilitate failover testing.
Without native tools to prove your application can survive a failure, you risk a critical gap in your reliability strategy that exposes you to several risks:
- Damaged trust and reputation: Frequent failures or poor performance lead...
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