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Chaos Monkey Released Into the Wild

Posted by Unknown on from the infinite-monkeys-with-infinite-hammers dept.

Quince alPillan writes "Netflix revealed today that they've released Chaos Monkey, an open source Amazon Web Service testing tool that will randomly turn off instances in Auto Scaling Groups. 'We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient. We are excited to make a long-awaited announcement today that will help others who embrace this approach. ...source code for the founding member of the Simian Army, Chaos Monkey, is available to the community.'"

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  1. Missleading title by valentinas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I though this was about monkeys...

  2. Obligatory... by CODiNE · · Score: 3, Funny

    MonkeyLives

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  3. Re:Into the wild? by jcoy42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is why we don't let you write headlines.

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  4. Java, meh by codepunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave it to some java developers to write 100k lines of code to do a shutdown -h now.

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    1. Re:Java, meh by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny

      1 line to do shutdown -h now.
      99,999 lines to build a GUI.

      That sounds about right.

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  5. A Cure for "Unexpected" by retroworks · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often."

    In other words, you'll never be disappointed if you expect total incompetence. I've already achieved this same thing on my own with my Netflix account, by completely and utterly lowering my expectations.

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