The chaos monkey is pointedly unsophisticated, but a system that can reliably survive its attack is likely to be very sophisticated. Airline pilots are effectua

The chaos monkey is pointedly unsophisticated, but a system that can reliably survive its attack is likely to be very sophisticated. Airline pilots are effectually faced with a chaos monkey in their recurring simulator trainings and as a result have a very sophisticated skill set (indeed, one most of them will never actually need, but train for anyway, for obvious reasons). Also, I take issue with it being “destructive”. Compute resources are effectively free on the margin (at least at the scale that concerns us here) and ephemeral. Killing such a process doesn’t meaningfully destroy anything of value.