May 9: Chaos monkey

The chaos monkey is a smart piece of software and a brilliant idea from engineers at Netflix.

Source: Sketchplanations
Published: May 2022

Chaos monkey

The chaos monkey is a smart piece of software and a brilliant idea from engineers at Netflix.

The chaos monkey deliberately switches off servers in live environments at random. By deliberately sabotaging Netflix’s own systems, it incentivizes redundancy in the face of random failures. Training for this randomness helps make resilient software.

The chaos monkey is a metaphor for actively working on what could go wrong in your system before it happens.

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