Chaos Monkey Released Into the Wild 76
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.'"
Into the wild? (Score:5, Informative)
And by "into the wild", they mean they're now letting it run on other people's sites.
Very Erlang-y (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. [wikibooks.org]
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?
The Truth (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Into the wild? (Score:4, Informative)
Seems more about that they've just published the source code on github [github.com] 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.