Working with the Chaos Monkey

[Lazybones]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html

This explains a lot of how Netflix appears to work.

AWS 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.

[Tom]

Hah! That's great!

[Mr. Analog]

Now that's the way you do it!

[Thorin]

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."

[Darren Dirt]

"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" -- here's why.)



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

[Lazybones]

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.

[Mr. Analog]

I wonder what would happen with an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of servers?

Probably CS: Source