Extreme DevOps

Risk Management Case Study

Chaos Monkey, developed by Netflix in 2011, is a tool used for resilience testing of their IT infrastructure. It deliberately disables computers in their production network to observe how the remaining systems respond to the outage. Part of the Simian Army suite, it simulates and tests various system failures and edge cases. Embracing the principles of DevOps, Chaos Monkey contributes to continuous testing and supports the “Design for failure” pattern, ensuring computer applications can handle the failure of underlying components.

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