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Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.

25 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 5 stories, 20 comments · first 2016-10-19 · latest 2024-11-13

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  1. …of context about the Netflix infra: https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba... https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by ay · 2024-11-13 · in We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix
  2. …> Exposing engineers to failures more frequently incentivizes them to build resilient services. https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
    comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF · 2024-10-23 · in What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?
  3. Never saw this communicated by Google, but Netflix is the company I have in mind for doing that: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by dewey · 2023-12-13 · in Zero downtime Postgres upgrades
  4. …tests in the kernel would be able to compete with so many chaos monkeys (a reference to Netflix's https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey ).
    comment by sph · 2022-11-26 · in Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests?
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    Chaos Monkey
    story by tosh · 2021-05-13 · 0 comments
  6. …party service. So you can break your own cloud account on demand and pay for breaking it? [0]: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey (I think first popular open source implementation of chaos engineering)
    comment by sdfhbdf · 2021-03-15 · in AWS Fault Injection Simulator
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    Randomly terminate instances of your production environment
    story by vincent_s · 2020-07-07 · 0 comments
  8. …to improve their robustness. The first widely noted system is Chaos Monkey developed at Netflix. https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey Years ago, I had the same reaction to "extreme programming"
    comment by brudgers · 2020-04-07 · in “Chaos Engineering” – Published by O'Reilly
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    Chaos Monkey is a tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures
    story by lorenzfx · 2020-01-22 · 0 comments
  10. …if you expect your program to always behave. Here's one from Netflix that will give you an ulcer: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey Here's what Google does: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa15/conference-program/... >> we all get…
    comment by m0zg · 2019-11-02 · in Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud
  11. This is why Netflix made "chaosmonkey" and other tools nearly a decade ago: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by notalogo · 2019-08-15 · in Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
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    Ask HN: How to build chaos-gorilla for fault injection testing?
    story by rahulskn86 · 2019-07-02 · 0 comments
  13. I have not used it, but I have heard this is a very useful tool https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by jtms · 2019-06-14 · in Principles of Chaos Engineering (2018)
  14. I'd say yes. I heard about this tool just a week ago at a developer conference. https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by Zobat · 2019-06-03 · in Google Cloud Is Down
  15. …if the outage involved permanent data-loss. You're talking about the people who built https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey I'd argue that it should be _easier_ for a 2-man company to adapt to cloud service outages, as they likely don't…
    comment by prophesi · 2019-05-31 · in "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
  16. …to reliably know a system behaves given unpredictable failures. So learn up: - http://jepsen.io - https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey - https://github.com/gundb/panic-server
    comment by marknadal · 2019-01-16 · in On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems
  17. …of how hard the code would be to extend to that case. Not even sure how it would work... [0]: < https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey > [1]: < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropout_(neural_networks) >
    comment by mlthoughts2018 · 2018-06-19 · in Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (2014)
  18. …they'd probably be livid that a widespread outage had been caused by something like this. [1] https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by wyldfire · 2018-06-12 · in Netflix suffers first massive global outage
  19. Netflix; they even call it a monkey as well: https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by icebraining · 2018-04-18 · in Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (2012)
  20. …such as Netflix put reliability into practice. Spinnaker https://www.spinnaker.io/ Chaos Monkey https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey Principles of Chaos Engineering http://principlesofchaos.org/
    comment by indescions_2018 · 2018-02-12 · in Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?
  21. …of the technique, seem to come from Netflix. The Chaos Monkey README even links to this site. https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chaos-engineering-upgrad... http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/cha…
    comment by antoncohen · 2018-01-28 · in Principles of Chaos Engineering
  22. Also check out: - Chaos Monkey by Netflix ( https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey ) - Jepsen Tests by Aphyr ( http://jepsen.io/ ) - PANIC by us ( https://github.com/gundb/panic-server )
    comment by marknadal · 2017-08-29 · in A Primer on Automating Chaos
  23. Basically what Netflix's Chaos Monkey is: https://github.com/netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by robotmlg · 2017-03-02 · in Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
  24. I think you meant "Chaos Monkey" [1]. [1] https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey
    comment by urda · 2017-03-02 · in Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
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    Chaos Monkey: tool helping applications tolerate random instance failures
    story by tonybeltramelli · 2016-10-19 · 0 comments