Talks & Podcasts

Episode 1: Tackling the Prevention Paradox with Adrian Hornsby

In episode 1 of "Experiments in Chaos", Benjamin Wilms sits down with Adrian Hornsby, a leading expert in the chaos engineering space to discuss common mistakes, best practices, and the future of the practice.

Episode 2: Embracing Psychological Safety with Russell Miles

In episode 2 of "Experiments in Chaos", Benjamin Wilms sits down with Russell Miles, a leading expert in the resilience engineering space, to discuss the keys to system reliability.

Episode 3: Putting Chaos Engineering to Work with Casey Rosenthal

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Casey Rosenthal, "The Chaos Engineering Guy", about what it takes to develop a proactive approach to reliability.

Episode 4: Enabling Reliability in the Cloud with Carlos Rojas

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms chats with Carlos Rojas, author of "Resilience Engineering for the Cloud", about DevOps vs. platform engineering, the roles and responsibilities related to reliability, and forecasting new trends.

Episode 5: Rolling Out Chaos Engineering with Tom Handal

In episode 5 of "Experiments in Chaos", Benjamin Wilms sits down with Tom Handal, a Principal Engineer at Roblox to discuss his experience rolling out chaos engineering across the organization in production.

Episode 6: Preparing for the Chaos of Agentic Systems with Jessica Kerr

In this episode, Benjamin Wilms sat down with Jessica Kerr, an Engineering Manager of Developer Relations at Honeycomb, to discuss the impact of new AI agents on software systems.

Episode 7: Exploring Sovereignty Strategy for IT Resilience with Andreas Prins

In this episode, Andreas Prins joins Benjamin Wilms for a discussion on IT sovereignty and its role in business resilience.

Build a Reliable System Under Unpredictable Conditions | Benjamin Wilms | Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2025

In this session, we will put the system to the test. Through live experiments, we’ll uncover hidden risks and explore strategies to build resilience at every level. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to strengthen both your technology and your teams.

Reliability in the Face of Uncertainty | Benjamin Wilms | Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2023

Providing reliable services to your customers is essential to success. Despite the best efforts, the one sure thing about undesirable events like outages is that they will always occur, but the moment chooses you.

Resilience and chaos testing with SteadyBit and k6, with Benjamin Wilms (k6 Office Hours #61)

What is the difference between resilience testing and chaos testing? SteadyBit CEO and co-founder Benjamin Wilms talks about how to integrate SteadyBit with k6 for both resilience and chaos, and why he prefers "chaos testing" to "chaos engineering".

How to foster a Culture of Resilience by Benjamin Wilms @ Spring I/O 2022

Chaos Engineering identifies weaknesses in supposedly reliable and stable systems. By discussing how to build transparency around the actual resilience of deployed apps among teams and how to balance appropriate reliability and engineering velocity, we will learn to build a culture of resilience

Talks4Nerds: Benjamin Wilms - Inject Failures to survive Demo (german)

Chaos Engineering: withstanding turbulent conditions in production by Benjamin Wilms

The complexity in modern and distributed architectures continues to increase. We have successfully broken down our application into small and maintainable components. Each individual component can be automated and brought into production at any time.

Unpacking Resilience Engineering – Benjamin Wilms on the SMC Journal Podcast

A deep dive into the realm of performance engineering, this episode unpacks the world of resilience testing, chaos engineering, and, of course, the role Steadybit is playing in all this.

Why you need to use a chaos engineering and resilience platform | Benjamin Wilms - Steadybit

Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system landscape is. steady bit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing workflow.

Proactive Reliability with Nils Wloka

Chaos Engineering has appeared as a very useful practice for increasing application resiliency. However, most teams start using Chaos Engineering only after incidents happened and after a lot of pain in dealing with the reliability issues. Is it possible to have a proactive reliability

Introduction To Steadybit Resilience and Chaos Engineering Platform | Benjamin Wilms

In this episode of TFiR Let’s Talk, Swapnil Bhartiya sits down with Benjamin Wilms, CEO and Co-Founder of Steadybit, to discuss the Steadybit Resilience and Chaos Engineering Platform. He goes into details about the origins of chaos engineering

Resilience Testing (Failures are your Friends)

Did you know why failures are your friend when it comes to testing? In this episode, Benjamin Wilms, co-founder of Steadybit, shares his views on resilience testing. Discover the difference between reliability, chaos, and resilience engineering, how resilience

o11ycast - Ep. #50, Identifying Weak Spots with Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit

In episode 50 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit. This conversation examines chaos engineering before production, identifying weak spots in your distributed system, and the health of the tech industry at large.

Benjamin Wilms: "Das war wie im Film" (german)

Ein eigenes Unternehmen aufzubauen, war in Benjamin Wilms Karriereplanung eigentlich nicht vorgesehen. Doch es kam anders: Im Herbst 2019 gründete er Steadybit. Das Start-up hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, Chaos Engineering für jedermann zugänglich zu machen

Benjamin Wilms: "Das war wie im Film" (german)

Ein eigenes Unternehmen aufzubauen, war in Benjamin Wilms Karriereplanung eigentlich nicht vorgesehen. Doch es kam anders: Im Herbst 2019 gründete er Steadybit. Das Start-up hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, Chaos Engineering für jedermann zugänglich zu machen.

DOP 188: Foster a Culture of Resilience With Steadybit

In this episode, we talk with Benjamin Wilms, CEO of Steadybit, about why just running chaos experiments is just one part of helping make your systems resilient and why capturing what happens in real-life incidents can help you create even better experiments.

The Evolution of Chaos Engineering with Benjamin Wilms

In the last few years, a lot has happened in the field of Chaos Engineering. No worries! In this episode, Benjamin Wilms, founder of SteadyBit, breaks it all down for you. Discover the evolution of chaos engineering, build a culture of resilience, Kubernetes, and much more