Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Glitch Day

Most engineering teams spend their hackathons building features that never ship. Lucas and Luna explore a different approach: the structured glitch day where teams intentionally break their own systems to expose fragility, test incident response, and build muscle memory for real outages. Drawing parallels to Netflix's Chaos Monkey and a medical-device company that found a race condition in its factory-floor firmware, they walk through how three hours of controlled chaos can surface more reliability bugs than a month of traditional testing. No slide decks, no product demos, just engineers trying to crash the thing they built. The episode covers how to set safety boundaries, why the post-glitch write-up matters more than the glitch itself, and how one CTO used glitch-day findings to justify a platform team reorg. For teams tired of incident-driven reliability improvements, this is a concrete alternative that turns reactive firefighting into a proactive practice. #GlitchDay #ChaosEngineering #Reliability #TechLeadership #EngineeringCulture #IncidentResponse #SiteReliabilityEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #BlamelessCulture #FragilityTesting #ProactiveReliability #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #Leadership #EngineeringManager #CTO Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo