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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. Into the wild? by dubl-u · · Score: 4, Informative

    And by "into the wild", they mean they're now letting it run on other people's sites.

    1. Re:Into the wild? by arkhan_jg · · Score: 3, Informative

      Seems more about that they've just published the source code on github under the Apache licence.

      So you can run your own chaos monkey on your own amazon cloud systems, or modify it to run on your private cloud, or whatever.

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      Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
  2. Very Erlang-y by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    Sounds like what has been common in Erlang for decades.

    Off topic: when I watch the /. homepage, I am logged in. As soon as I click on a story, I become an Anonymous Coward. Did anybody else experience this bug too?

  3. The Truth by paleo2002 · · Score: 1, Informative

    War, famine, violence, addiction, pollution . . . truly, WE are the Chaos Monkeys!