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The point here is that when you know that you're living with the Chaos Monkey, your systems become very fault tolerant. Living with a monkey does that. But eve
by Duff 15y ago
The point here is that when you know that you're living with the Chaos Monkey, your systems become very fault tolerant. Living with a monkey does that.
But even you don't embrace the concept, the Chaos Monkey is likely going to become a uninvited house guest at some point in time. In StackOverflow's case, they bought a mainstream server with a mainstream OS, and discovered that that server came with a monkey.
Think of it another way. My brother and sister in law never worried about the failure characteristics of dinner plates, so they had lots of nice stuff. Then they had a baby. All of the sudden, falling plates and glasses became something that they had to think about.
- buddydvd 15y agoRight, I agree that is the main point of the post. However, generalizing Netflix's naming of their fault-inducing system into unexpected failures dilutes the meaning of such name. Jeff's introduction to Netflix's system is what made this post interesting (if you disagree, take the mental exercise and rewrite this post in your mind without mentioning Netflix's system). There's a disconnect between the main point of the post and the most interesting point of the post.
- MartinCron 15y agoIt's perfectly OK for people to draw inspiration and find parallels from other sources, especially when they are both inspiring and timely. Jeff had something happen on accident that Netflix was smart enough to engineer on purpose. Once again, Jeff learns an important lesson and shares with everyone. No need to give grief over that.
- buddydvd 15y agoI'm not trying to give grief here. I respect Jeff highly and found this article to be insightful. If people dislike my comment for its tone, I accept it. It was probably a bit overly antagonistic.