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Isn't this basically what Google has been doing for years with their DiRT exercises?
by tehmillhouse 9y ago
Isn't this basically what Google has been doing for years with their DiRT exercises?
- dastbe 9y ago1. Netflix has been doing "chaos engineering" for years (earliest public reference I can find is 2011), especially w.r.t. to public cloud. 2. Netflix has done a great job at publicizing their efforts and open sourcing software that helps you do this kind of testing in a continuous, automated fashion. So I think the "basically what google has been doing" comment is reductive.
- mlafeldt 9y agoGood question. It is true that Google's Disaster Recovery Testing events are also about breaking things on purpose as a means of preparation. However, those events are typically large-scale, company-wide drills targeting not only critical systems but also business processes involving people. (They even prevent experts from participating to make sure knowledge is spread across the organization. I recommend reading http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 for more.) As dastbe has pointed out, Chaos Engineering is more about experimenting in a continuous, automated (and hopefully safe) way. Compared to DiRT, experiments are typically smaller in scope, involving fewer people, if any.