January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 34m
English
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The Simian Army
Probably the best known example of chaos engineering is Netflix’s “Chaos Monkey.” Every once in a while, the monkey wakes up, picks an autoscaling cluster, and kills one of its instances. The cluster should recover automatically. If it doesn’t, then there’s a problem and the team that owns the service has to fix it.
The Chaos Monkey tool was born during Netflix’s migration to Amazon’s AWS cloud infrastructure and a microservice architecture. As services proliferated, engineers found that availability could be jeopardized by an increasing number of components. Unless they found a way to make the whole service immune to component failures, they would be doomed. So every cluster needed to autoscale and recover from failure of ...