--- title: Chaos testing Spanner improves reiliability | daily.dev description: Spanner employs chaos testing to improve reliability by injecting faults into production-like instances. The use of fault-tolerant design helps mask failures... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chaos-testing-spanner-improves-reiliability-a6slwswlk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Chaos testing Spanner improves reiliability | daily.dev og:description: Spanner employs chaos testing to improve reliability by injecting faults into production-like instances. The use of fault-tolerant design helps mask failures... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chaos-testing-spanner-improves-reiliability-a6slwswlk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/A6SLWsWlK.png og:image:alt: Chaos testing Spanner improves reiliability og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK) # [Chaos testing Spanner improves reiliability](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "Go to post") Spanner employs chaos testing to improve reliability by injecting faults into production-like instances. The use of fault-tolerant design helps mask failures of components. Various types of faults are injected during chaos testing, including server crashes, file faults, RPC faults, memory/quota faults, cloud faults, and regional outages. [#database](/tags/database "Check all #database posts")[#spanner](/tags/spanner "Check all #spanner posts") May 09, 2024•6m read time•From [cloud.google.com](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "cloud.google.com") [](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "Go to post") Table of contents [A fault-tolerant design foundation](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "A fault-tolerant design foundation")[Upping reliability with chaos testing](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "Upping reliability with chaos testing")[Spanner earns its reputation for reliability](https://api.daily.dev/r/A6SLWsWlK "Spanner earns its reputation for reliability") 51 Impressions Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughtsPost [](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp) [Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp "https://daily.dev/sources/gcp") Google Cloud Platform provides a suite of cloud computing services for building, deploying, and mana... Read more 835 Followers • 1.4K Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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