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[theweaselking]

Netflix decided the Chaos Monkey was insufficiently destructive, and have invented Chaos Kong: Instead of killing individual production servers and processes at random, this one takes out entire AWS regions.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Next up, "Chaos Market Share", which deletes 10% of customer accounts and sees how it impacts revenue; and "Chaos Daytrader", which randomly fires 10% of the employees and sees how the company responds...

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They're working on it!

[frith]

Inspired by this, I might suggest at our next department meeting that our fake "escaped animal" exercises (a manager in a gorilla suit) ought to be optimized and enhanced by releasing a couple of tigers and a rhino. Just the old ones that are past their prime and no longer contributing offspring to the collection. Not only will it be more exciting, it will be a true test to see if we can safely dart all three before the cops arrive and start shooting.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid "turning off a production AWS server" is not quite the same as "release a rhinoceros to the public".

For one thing, AWS servers are not adorable and do not love ear scritches.

[frith]

8^)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

This could be a real world application of the joke where you release three pigs labeled "1", "2", and "4" in a shopping mall.

[frith]

Was that in a movie? Hilarious! 8^D