Netflix Unleashes Chaos Monkey as its Latest Open Source Tool

[Chad Kieffer]

Although not part of my development process, I've been reading about various application and code testing techniques. After looking at basic unit testing techniques, I was fascinated to read about Netflix's Chaos Monkey after the massive Amazon AWS outages a few years ago. If you rely on the cloud to provide services at the scale Netflix does, how could you not take this approach.

The Netflix development team has their act together. Too bad the same can't be said for their CEO and marketing team.

 

 

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Netflix Unleashes Chaos Monkey as its Latest Open Source Tool

via InfoQ Personalized Feed for Chad Kieffer by Richard Seroter on 7/31/12

Netflix has just open-sourced its much talked about “Chaos Monkey” software which intentionally takes servers offline as a way to test the resiliency of a cloud environment. This is another in a long line of internally developed tools that Netflix has chosen to freely share with the technical community. By Richard Seroter

 

 

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