Chaos Engineering for API-Centric Systems in Telecom & eCommerce
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-922X.IJERET-V6I2P112Keywords:
Chaos Engineering, API Middleware, Distributed Systems, Resilience Engineering, Telecom Networks, eCommerce Platforms, Cloud-Native ArchitecturesAbstract
As modern telecom and eCommerce platforms increasingly rely on distributed, API-centric architectures, ensuring system resilience and reliability has become a critical challenge. Chaos engineering offers a proactive approach by deliberately injecting controlled failures into systems to uncover weaknesses before they impact customers. This white paper examines the role of chaos engineering in large-scale telecom and eCommerce environments, focusing on its application to orchestration layers, control planes, service meshes, and edge routing. It identifies five key domains where chaos engineering delivers measurable value to API-driven systems: resiliency testing, observability and monitoring, deployment and release reliability, performance and scalability, and platform evolution and change management. By simulating real-world failure scenarios, organizations can validate assumptions, improve fault tolerance, and strengthen operational readiness. The paper demonstrates how chaos engineering functions not only as a technical practice, but as a strategic capability for safeguarding business continuity in high-scale digital ecosystems.
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