Gamedays

We regularly conduct gamedays across our applications to simulate high levels of traffic and failure scenarios based on our runbooks.

These will be conducted with the engineering and product teams, and sometimes with the wider business, to ensure readiness for production.

The aims of gamedays are as follows:

• To simulate production loads using load tests to provide developers with confidence around production monitoring.

• To shed light on failure scenarios that we have not taken into account.

• To help the engineering team anticipate the stress of operating systems in a high-traffic production environment.

• To gain organisational confidence in underlying systems and processes.