# Hitting reliability goals in the face of layoffs

DevFeed: [Hitting reliability goals in the face of layoffs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hitting-reliability-goals-in-the-face-of-layoffs-11584.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/hitting-reliability-goals-in-the-face-of-layoffs>)

Author: Jeff Nickoloff

Published: 2024-04-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Chaos Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chaos-engineering.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [chaos-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chaos-engineering.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gremlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gremlin.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how teams can maintain reliability goals after layoffs by simplifying resilience testing, reducing dependence on specialists, and enabling more engineers to run core scalability, redundancy, and dependency tests. It recommends automating recurring experiments so teams can review failed tests and focus their limited time on reliability improvements.

## Source excerpt

It's rough when there are layoffs and you have to still keep everything going with fewer people. That's when you want to lean on your partners and embrace automation and core best practices. With resiliency, that means choosing something like Gremlin that has pre-built test scenarios so you can deploy the agent, then get the results and spend your time mitigating instead of building all of the tests and custom experiments.