Uma Mukkara

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Uma Mukkara

Head of Chaos Engineering

Harness

Uma Mukkara is Head of Chaos Engineering at Harness, where he helps teams improve reliability by safely testing how systems behave during real-world failures. He joined Harness after founding ChaosNative, the company behind LitmusChaos, a popular open-source chaos engineering project. Earlier, Mukkara co-founded MayaData and helped build cloud-native technologies such as OpenEBS. His work centers on making resilience engineering approachable for developers, SREs, and platform teams.

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Find Resilience Risks Automatically, Then Confirm Them

RT Agents detect resilience risk in your CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate and run chaos experiments or load tests to confirm it.

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August 24, 2026

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Find Resilience Risks Automatically, Then Confirm Them

RT Agents detect resilience risk in your CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate and run chaos experiments or load tests to confirm it.

August 24, 2026

3 minutes to read

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Testing application resilience under load with Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

8 minutes to read

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Why DR Testing Can No Longer Be an Afterthought

The March 2026 drone strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — the first confirmed military attack on a hyperscale cloud provider — exposed how unprepared many organisations are for a real regional cloud failure. The blog argues that havin

April 10, 2026

7 minutes to read

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From Chaos Engineering to Resilience Testing: Why We’re Expanding How Teams Validate Reliability

Harness evolves Chaos Engineering into Resilience Testing, unifying Chaos, Load, and Disaster Recovery Testing for continuous, AI-driven reliability validation.

February 27, 2026

2 minutes to read

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Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by doing resilience testing regularly with Harness Chaos Engineering.

November 19, 2025

5 minutes to read

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Resilience Testing using Harness

Resilience testing is made easy to onboard and scalable with Harness Chaos Engineering. Harness provides all the required capabilities to practice resilience testing in SDLC.

September 11, 2025

3 minutes to read

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Technical

Find Resilience Risks Automatically, Then Confirm Them

RT Agents detect resilience risk in your CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate and run chaos experiments or load tests to confirm it.

August 24, 2026

3 minutes to read

Technical

Testing application resilience under load with Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

8 minutes to read

Technical

Why DR Testing Can No Longer Be an Afterthought

April 10, 2026

7 minutes to read

Technical

Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

November 19, 2025

5 minutes to read

Technical

Resilience Testing using Harness

Resilience testing is made easy to onboard and scalable with Harness Chaos Engineering. Harness provides all the required capabilities to practice resilience testing in SDLC.

September 11, 2025

3 minutes to read

Company News

Technical

Harness launches MCP tools to enhance its AI powered Chaos Engineering Capabilities

Chaos Tools on Harness MCP Server provide the opportunity to do the resilience testing using AI Agents and AI Tools with natural language prompts. Users can discover the resilience test capabilities, learn more about them and run the tests to measure the resilience data of the business critical applications or services. Chaos Tools lay the foundation for AI Powered Chaos Engineering using Harness in the Enterprise's journey towards building a strong resilience testing culture.

July 10, 2025

3 minutes to read

Technical

How to Test Application Resilience Under Load with K6 and Chaos Engineering

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Resilience Testing—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

13 minutes to read

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Harness Chaos Engineering Faults Landscape

Discover the range of chaos faults supported by Harness Chaos Engineering, enhancing system resilience across various infrastructures and platforms.

November 27, 2023

5 minutes to read

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Achieving Continuous Resilience with Harness Chaos Engineering

Introducing the continuous resilience approach. Understand the modern approach to practicing chaos engineering where the efforts to build resilience are inserted into all stages of your software development life cycle through automated chaos experiments. Harness Chaos Engineering or Harness CE comes with all the building blocks required for achieving Continuous Resilience in DevOps.

May 25, 2023

6 minutes to read

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