http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html
This explains a lot of how Netflix appears to work.
QuoteAWS had a huge multi-day outage last week, which took several major websites down, along with a constellation of smaller sites.
Notably absent from that list of affected AWS sites? Netflix.
Hah! That's great!
Now that's the way you do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3wrBFuGK2A
AWS Downfall!
Best line, in my opinion: one woman to another who is sobbing, "It's ok. You didn't you know you can't rsync an entire SAN."
"how to keep your job"
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/03/everything-you-know-will-be-obsolete-in-five-years.html
(sounds like "solution" to fast-changing technology world = read all these books: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading-for-developers.html )
(and also reading "59 Seconds (http://www.amazon.com/59-Seconds-Little-Change-Borzoi/dp/B0057DCE7M)" -- here's why (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/07/nobodys-going-to-help-you-and-thats-awesome.html).)
Thanks brah.
I have now added "Coding Horror" to my own inside-my-brain list of timesinks to avoid except weekends.
...but I think I have an idea how one can self-motivate learning a new programming language:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/03/rapid-prototyping-fun.html
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2438/how_to_prototype_a_game_in_under_7_.php
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/netflix-attacks-own-network-with-chaos-monkey-and-now-you-can-too/
They had to add more primates.
I wonder what would happen with an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of servers?
Probably CS: Source