Facebook post-mortems...

Tue Oct 5 12:59:43 UTC 2021

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