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sadly my analogy failed most peoples IQ :facepalm:

• mikeash 14y ago
  Yes, we're all too dumb to understand your brilliance. Couldn't possibly be the fault of your analogy.
  • Zenst 14y ago
    no that would be you. Point I was making is that pulling out process's/servers/cables is all fine (aka pissing on your server) but it is not a ideal way to test. It is better IMHO to test out on what you could call weak hardware, as in realy throttled CPU/disc/network etc and see were things break as these emulate what potentual peak bottlenecks you will get. This approach is better as you get to test out a single process system as apposed to only being able to test cloud based approaches as this does.
    • Bjartr 14y ago
      Chaos monkey isn't for testing peak bottlenecks, it's for testing random failures at the per instance level. For bottleneck testing I expect Netflix has another tool with a similarly simian name, but that's not the topic of discussion.
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    • vidarh 14y ago
      Pulling out processes/servers/cables is an ideal way to test what happens when you pull out processes/servers/cables. Especially when you want to see how it affects a system that is too large to realistically reproduce in a test rig (though presumably you would still want to run it in your scaled down test rig too). Throttling CPU/disc/network is all well and fine and necessary too, but that's only one set of failure scenarios, and won't protect you against a whole range of failures related to systems just disappearing as they crash, or failing to restart, or any number of other concerns.