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Chaos Monkey

Chaos Monkey

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Chaos Monkey

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Netflix’s tool that randomly terminates production instances to ensure services are resilient to individual instance failures. Chaos Monkey pioneered the practice of proactive failure injection and demonstrated that regular failures build more resilient systems.

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  • Random Instance Termination
  • Resilience Validation
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