// SRE· Specialty
Verify your failover actually works, before you need it to.
For teams whose resilience story rests on assumptions nobody has deliberately tested.
The problem
Why this keeps biting teams
Runbooks describe what's supposed to happen when a dependency fails. Whether it actually happens that way is usually untested, until a real failure reveals the retry logic was misconfigured or the alert never fired.
What we do
[01]
Identify the failure modes most likely to matter for your architecture and blast radius.
[02]
Run controlled chaos experiments in staging, then production, with a clear rollback plan.
[03]
Verify alerting, failover, and retries behave the way the runbook claims they do.
[04]
Fold findings back into the runbook and the architecture, not just a postmortem doc.
Typical Outcomes
verified
not assumed, failover behavior
fewer
surprises during real incidents
Deliverables
[01]
Failure mode analysis prioritized by likelihood and impact
[02]
Chaos experiment design and controlled execution plan
[03]
Verified failover, retry, and alerting behavior report
[04]
Updated runbooks reflecting what was actually verified
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