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Look at Netflix with chaos monkey and simian army. Netflix routinely does catastrophic destructive testing on their production systems, sometimes evacuating an
by computerex 8y ago
Look at Netflix with chaos monkey and simian army. Netflix routinely does catastrophic destructive testing on their production systems, sometimes evacuating an AWS region entirely. To them, a server going down is a non-event, because they designed their systems with the premise that servers go down.
- milesvp 8y agoNetflix is a great example of how to create robust systems. Keep in mind though, they have a very different risk profile than a large bank. no one is going to lose their life’s savings if netflix entire infrastructure crumbles. This might happen in a bank with a single server outtage. Don’t get me wrong, if I start a bank today, I use chaos monkey stategy. But if I take over a bank infrastructure, with cobol still representing a huge percentage of mission critical code that everyone is scared to touch... no chaos monkey. I might deliberately turn off a server for an hour to see what chaos ensues, but it’ll be after 3 months of analysis, longer if I begin to suspect the system does more than anyone can remember.
- somberi 8y agoNot to mention adhering to the Fed's directives on tech-readiness, on which the Bank's license hinges on.
- DanBC 8y agoIf a customer can't watch a film they get unhappy. If a customer can't pay a fine - can't use their bank account - they go to jail. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/bank-accounts/9355467/RBS-computer-failure-condemns-man-to-spend-weekend-in-the-cells.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/bank-acc... These are pretty different outcomes.