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I'm pretty unclear on the "how" here - but from what I can understand in the article the search resilience team injected properly tagged synthetic traffic into

I'm pretty unclear on the "how" here - but from what I can understand in the article the search resilience team injected properly tagged synthetic traffic into their system to do testing? That does seem like the kind of practice that could be part of healthy holistic approach - but the article elides a ton of details. I suppose the idea is that it promotes AWS services (with the idea of suggesting that this kind of resiliency comes easier on their platform) - but this is a great example of how good writing strips things down to the barest details. I would love to take lessons from it but I think the details actually aren't here.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
> I suppose the idea is that it promotes AWS services an advert in disguise then?
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  anything that uses the template “How X did Y to improve Z by METRIC” and also hosted on company x domain is an ad. for that matter, any blog post by a company is an ad. maybe not to sell product, but to at least build exposure and familiarity with the brand.
  - vrosas 3y ago
    To add to that, I’ve read enough of my own companies blog posts to know that Y was an incorrect solution to Z, was half-implemented at best, barely improved METRIC, and has already made a lot of peoples’ lives harder for simply existing. So now I take every single one of these posts with a massive grain of salt.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
  Recruiting ad
- ljm 3y ago
  The solution to any problem in a cloud provider is another service the same provider offers, as far as they’re concerned.
omgJustTest 3y ago
Oh... "Chaos systems"=="event-driven development". For those confused about an analogy to chaos theory... as far as i can tell, there isn't one. In physics a chaos system has small perturbations that lead to an instability. I would argue this is just a large perturbation that leads to certain instabilities. I would also classify this as "network systems fault tolerance" engineering. As a stand-alone article it is fine, and is likely to trip the more fluff than stuff alarm on many people's bs-detectors.
- losteric 3y ago
  Who's drawing parallels with chaos theory? The origin is Netflix injecting "chaos" like taking servers down randomly. It's not tied to any scientific theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering "Stress testing" might be more intuitive but that's already established as simply testing under high traffic

_a_a_a_ 3y ago

> I suppose the idea is that it promotes AWS services an advert in disguise then?

catchnear4321 3y ago
anything that uses the template “How X did Y to improve Z by METRIC” and also hosted on company x domain is an ad. for that matter, any blog post by a company is an ad. maybe not to sell product, but to at least build exposure and familiarity with the brand.
- vrosas 3y ago
  To add to that, I’ve read enough of my own companies blog posts to know that Y was an incorrect solution to Z, was half-implemented at best, barely improved METRIC, and has already made a lot of peoples’ lives harder for simply existing. So now I take every single one of these posts with a massive grain of salt.
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
Recruiting ad
ljm 3y ago
The solution to any problem in a cloud provider is another service the same provider offers, as far as they’re concerned.

omgJustTest 3y ago

Oh... "Chaos systems"=="event-driven development". For those confused about an analogy to chaos theory... as far as i can tell, there isn't one. In physics a chaos system has small perturbations that lead to an instability. I would argue this is just a large perturbation that leads to certain instabilities. I would also classify this as "network systems fault tolerance" engineering. As a stand-alone article it is fine, and is likely to trip the more fluff than stuff alarm on many people's bs-detectors.

losteric 3y ago
Who's drawing parallels with chaos theory? The origin is Netflix injecting "chaos" like taking servers down randomly. It's not tied to any scientific theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering "Stress testing" might be more intuitive but that's already established as simply testing under high traffic