Netflix Unleashed a Monkey With a Weapon in Its Own Data Center — On Purpose
It was 2011 and Netflix had just migrated hundreds of microservices to AWS. Their architecture was distributed, horizontally scaled, and theoretically fault-tolerant. But theory and production are different things. The only way to know if a system could survive failures was to cause failures — constantly, deliberately, during business hours, and in production. So they built a monkey.
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