So Netflix has been doing this for years now... it's called the Chaos Monkey and part of their "Simian Army" that performs this kind of function but *all the time* with no schedule. This is not something FB came up with but this post seems to give them credit for this innovation.
More interesting than the lack of credit to Netflix though is this adoption of a method that heavily favors a Microservice Architecture. Seeing more and more of this flexible, scalable, and highly resilient architecture and methodology being put out in industry is certainly encouraging.
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So Netflix has been doing this for years now... it's called the Chaos Monkey and part of their "Simian Army" that performs this kind of function but *all the time* with no schedule. This is not something FB came up with but this post seems to give them credit for this innovation. More interesting than the lack of credit to Netflix though is this adoption of a method that heavily favors a Microservice Architecture. Seeing more and more of this flexible, scalable, and highly resilient architecture and methodology being put out in industry is certainly encouraging.