> Netflix apparently has a chaos generator that randomly kills machines as a standard process.
This sounds pretty neat, but a quick Google didn't turn up any information about it besides this post. Do you know of anywhere to get more information on what they're doing? It sounds like a sensible idea, although I can only imagine trying to implement it would be ... challenging, for most companies/organizations.
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> Netflix apparently has a chaos generator that randomly kills machines as a standard process.
This sounds pretty neat, but a quick Google didn't turn up any information about it besides this post. Do you know of anywhere to get more information on what they're doing? It sounds like a sensible idea, although I can only imagine trying to implement it would be ... challenging, for most companies/organizations.
check out item no 3. on this list, which is AWS lessons-learned: http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...
see also: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...
and: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html for the other simian themed services they've developed for care and feeding of their AWS stuff.