Gremlin

About

Gremlin is a leading enterprise-level chaos engineering platform designed to enhance system reliability and prevent costly outages. Founded in 2016 by Kolton Andrus and Matthew Fornaciari, who honed their expertise in reliability and incident response at major tech companies like Amazon and Netflix, Gremlin provides a 'Failure-as-a-Service' platform. This innovative service empowers engineering teams to proactively identify and remediate weaknesses within their systems before they can impact customers. The platform facilitates the safe and secure injection of failures into systems, allowing teams to conduct controlled experiments that reveal vulnerabilities in their infrastructure, applications, and processes. By simulating real-world failure scenarios, such as server crashes, network latency, or dependency failures, Gremlin enables organizations to build more resilient and fault-tolerant systems. The company's mission is to help businesses build a more reliable internet. Gremlin's platform is utilized by a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in sectors including finance, retail, and technology. Customers like Target, Twilio, and JPMorgan Chase leverage Gremlin to de-risk cloud migrations, validate disaster recovery plans, fine-tune monitoring and alerts, and build a culture of reliability. The platform goes beyond simple chaos engineering by offering features like automated reliability testing, dependency discovery, and reliability scoring, providing a comprehensive view of a system's health. With a remote-first culture, Gremlin has assembled a team of industry veterans from companies like Google, Salesforce, and New Relic, who have firsthand experience with the challenges of maintaining uptime for complex, distributed systems. This collective expertise is embedded in the platform, offering users a sophisticated yet accessible way to improve their system's resilience and deliver a superior customer experience.