Chaos Engineering for Financial Infrastructure: Building Resilience in Regulated Environments
Financial systems break differently from everything else. A web service goes down — users see an error page. A trading system’s FIX session stays alive but stops receiving fills — the pricing engine keeps trading on stale data for the next thirty seconds. Market data flows for some symbols but not others. A trade capture failure at 2 PM creates a settlement issue at 6 AM the next day. And downtime is measured in regulatory penalties and market exposure. Chaos engineering — the intentional, controlled injection of failures — was built for exactly these scenarios. Unlike most infrastructure practices, it has published financial services references you can point your compliance team to. ...