chaos monkey
a.k.a. chaos engineeringChaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. The term chaos monkey refers to a specific open source tool.
Historical perspective: In 2011 Netflix invented a tool called Chaos Monkey to test the resilience of its IT infrastructure[, specifically the recoverability of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. It works by intentionally disabling computers in Netflix's production network to test how the remaining systems respond to the outage. Chaos Monkey became part of a larger suite of tools called the Simian Army designed to simulate and test responses to various system failures and edge cases.
The name chaos monkey is explained in the book "Chaos Monkeys" by Antonio Garcia Martinez: Imagine a monkey entering a data center, these server farms of servers that host all the critical functions of our online activities. The monkey randomly rips cables, destroys devices and returns everything that passes by the hand (i.e. flings excrement). The challenge for IT managers is to design the information system they are responsible for so that it can work despite these monkeys, which no one ever knows when they arrive and what they will destroy.
See also : server farm
NetLingo Classification: Net Programming
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