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Chaos Monkey: Engineer by AndrewSteblevsky is a document available to read on EtoBox.
In 2010, Netflix decided to move their systems to the cloud. In this new environment, hosts could be terminated and replaced at any time, which meant their services needed to prepare for this constraint. By pseudo-randomly rebooting their own hosts, they could suss out any weaknesses and validate that their automated remediation worked correctly. This also helped fnd “stateful” services, which relied on host resources (such as a local cache and database), as opposed to stateless services, which store
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