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Proper link, sorry:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt
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Commented Apr 25, 2011 on Working with the Chaos Monkey at Coding Horror
Working with the Chaos Monkey
Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it's great ad...
Jeff, is this a tacit admission that you were the cause of those outages?
"Raise your hand if where you work, your boss deployed a daemon or service that randomly kills servers and processes in your server farm.
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Who in their right mind would willingly choose to work for a Chaos Monkey?"
I'm surprised that you didn't link to http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=monkey>this story from the Macintosh development team. I imagine that the Netflix guys knew about it when they named their tester.
Commented Apr 25, 2011 on Working with the Chaos Monkey at Coding Horror
Working with the Chaos Monkey
Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it's great ad...
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