1. 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

1. 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.