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Tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.

32 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 6 stories, 26 comments · first 2012-07-31 · latest 2022-03-16

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  1. …to an internal topic for a few days - just like we would not be able to work if we fell ill. [0]: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by sdoering · 2022-03-16 · in On Being Indispensable
  2. The old chaos monkey didn’t require spinnaker. You can find it here: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by jedberg · 2019-02-27 · in Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages
  3. …slow or intermittently down. Netflix has since incorporated those failure modes into chaos monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/The-Chaos-Monkey-...
    comment by jedberg · 2019-02-16 · in Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
  4. You were downvoted but I think you're right. Netflix's Chaos Monkey is a similar idea: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by tree_of_item · 2018-08-17 · in Safety-first AI for autonomous data centre cooling and industrial control
  5. …(which simulates the failure of an entire region) sadly. [0]: http://principlesofchaos.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki
    comment by Slippery_John · 2017-09-14 · in S3 was down
  6. …down and they can still operate with nary a hiccup. I wouldn't call that over-engineered. [0] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by alpha_squared · 2017-04-21 · in The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix
  7. …all traffic to the surviving nodes. Netflix does this monthly, in production. They also run https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy on production. The cloud enables fault tolerance, resiliency and graceful degradation.
    comment by computerex · 2017-02-16 · in Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
  8. …Chubby failures." I think 2 is really interesting. Netflix has Chaos Monkey to help address this ( https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey ). There's also a book called Foolproof ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/…
    comment by richdougherty · 2017-02-14 · in Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
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    Netflix's Chaos Monkey
    story by adenadel · 2017-01-12 · 0 comments
  10. And it's OSS: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by rrdharan · 2016-09-29 · in What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
  11. There is a chaos monkey that does that: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by extrapickles · 2016-09-24 · in What is Janitor Monkey? (2015)
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    What is Janitor Monkey? (2015)
    story by asimjalis · 2016-09-23 · 5 comments
  13. …is actually a reference to a tool that I think netflix released? huh. yeah, I see it on github: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy I remember someone giving a talk on it in the mid aughts, and I think it's a wonderful way to describe…
    comment by lsc · 2016-09-15 · in Old Geek
  14. …talks about Chaos Monkey: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in... GitHub: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by a_bonobo · 2016-08-04 · in U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
  15. > Are there analogies in other industries to this approach? https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by JoshTriplett · 2016-07-02 · in Automated to Death (2009)
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    Netflix's the Simian Army
    story by tmlee · 2016-06-09 · 0 comments
  17. …for failure recovery from the beginning and testing thoroughly to make sure it really happens. [1] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software [3]…
    comment by wpietri · 2016-05-07 · in Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan
  18. Wow, a real-life chaos monkey! https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by cvwright · 2016-03-23 · in An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
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    Chaos Monkey (2014)
    story by emartinelli · 2016-02-12 · 0 comments
  20. Simian Army Suite https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by mxpxrocks10 · 2015-11-11 · in A View of the Entire Netflix Stack
  21. https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by fletchowns · 2015-02-04 · in Netflix was experiencing issues
  22. Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy introduction: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
    comment by mtmail · 2014-12-07 · in Ask HN: Who uses Chaos Monkey?
  23. …that it is opensource. [2] [1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in... [2] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by jfroma · 2014-10-29 · in Game day exercises at Stripe
  24. The total toolkit they have is called the Simian Army -- https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy They wrote a blog post about it here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html I don't think they have one that introduces…
    comment by sargun · 2014-10-03 · in A State of Xen – Chaos Monkey and Cassandra
  25. Chaos Monkey (and related software) is open source: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki
    comment by frankchn · 2014-10-03 · in A State of Xen – Chaos Monkey and Cassandra
  26. …outages needs to be a part of your strategy if these systems are important. Oh, and there's this: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by jms703 · 2014-09-29 · in Rackspace: How to Royally Poop on Your Customers (8 Ways)
  27. …errors. IE consistency versus randomness. Not that randomness is bad for testing, cf Chaos Monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
    comment by angry_octet · 2014-06-25 · in Improved default settings for Linux machines
  28. …failures early and often. This will surface architectural problems better than any whiteboard. https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy Also, check out boto and aws cli. http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforpython/ http://aws.amazon.com/cli/
    comment by dmourati · 2014-01-30 · in AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
  29. ▲ 1
    Janitor Monkey from NetFlix zu delete unused cloud instances
    story by atesti · 2013-01-08 · 1 comment
  30. Yes, building your approach around chaos monkeys ( https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy ) has some real advantages.
    comment by hga · 2012-12-26 · in AWS outage brings Netflix down for some devices on Christmas Eve
  31. I was thinking someone must have unleashed the simian army: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
    comment by ashleyblackmore · 2012-07-31 · in Ask PG: What caused the downtime?
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    Chaos Monkey source code on GitHub
    story by ramen · 2012-07-31 · 0 comments