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Re: Facebook post-mortems...


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:59:43 +0900

Carsten Bormann wrote:

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

It seems to me that so called chaos engineering assumes cosmic
internet environment, though, in good old days, we were aware
that the Internet is the source of chaos.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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