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Re: Facebook post-mortems...
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 09:17:56 +0200
On 5. Oct 2021, at 07:42, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:They have a monkey patch subsystem. Lol.Yes, actually, they do. They use Chef extensively to configure operating systems. Chef is written in Ruby. Ruby has something called Monkey Patches.
While Ruby indeed has a chain-saw (read: powerful, dangerous, still the tool of choice in certain cases) in its toolkit that is generally called “monkey-patching”, I think Michael was actually thinking about the “chaos monkey”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Monkey https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ That was a Netflix invention, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Facebook_Storm Grüße, Carsten
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