Antifragile Software and Chaos Engineering

Antifragile software in a nutshell

Antifragile software engineering is the art of building ultra dependable software systems running in ultra open and unpredictable environments. Antifragile software is an extreme form of self-healing software.

Engineering of antifragile software has several dimensions:

• self-healing capabilities
• self-repair at runtime, automatic recovery, automatic remediation.
• randomization, diversification
• failure injection in production, chaos engineering
• chaos computing
• self-checking capabilities, self-testing, sense of self
• program hardening, code rewriting

Research in my group

We try to understand the causes of software brittleness, and to propose counter-measures so as to automatically harden software. Read more about our recent resilience techniques:

• a self-healing proxy
• correctness attraction
• the Chaos Machine.
  
  

Community

The Chaos Community mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chaos-community

The LinkedIn group on Computational Antifragility moderated by V. De Florio

Good Pointers

• Principles of Antifragile Software (Monperrus) (2014)
• Self-Healing: Science, Engineering, and Fiction Locasto (2007)
• Characterizing self-healing software systems (Keromytis) (2007).
• Elements of the self-healing system problem space (Koopman) (2003)
• Chaos Engineering (the book by Casey Rosenthal et al.) (2017).
• Chaos Engineering (Basiri et. al.), IEEE Software, (2016à
• Design of self-checking software (S. S. Yau, R. C. Cheung) (1975)