<story><title>Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iagooar</author><text>I posted this piece of news to my team Slack at work, and a colleague of mine wrote: &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t need chaos monkey, we have developers for that&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;While being funny, it also holds a lot of truth. I guess that Netflix can hire really top-notch devs who do not accidentally force downtime to their software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevan</author><text>Developers cause software downtime, but they usually don&amp;#x27;t cause infrastructure downtime, which is what Chaos Monkey does. Cloud VMs have failure rates somewhere around 1-2% depending on who you ask. This is low enough that you can ignore it most of the time, but it&amp;#x27;ll come back and bite you hard later. Chaos Monkey artificially forces that failure rate high enough that you&amp;#x27;ll notice problems immediately and fix them before they become too engrained into your architecture.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iagooar</author><text>I posted this piece of news to my team Slack at work, and a colleague of mine wrote: &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t need chaos monkey, we have developers for that&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;While being funny, it also holds a lot of truth. I guess that Netflix can hire really top-notch devs who do not accidentally force downtime to their software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremiep</author><text>The difference is scale. Only a handful of companies run at Netflix scale.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t trust developers to do what Chaos Monkey does at such a scale, no matter how good you think they are.</text></comment>