On: Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers

[delusional]

I think it was Netflix engineer at a conference that once said that you shouldn't run chaos monkey if you expect it to fail. If you don't think it will work, then go fix those places that you know to be rotten first.

Your comment was probably in jest, but it provided a nice platform for mine :)

[jedberg → delusional]

It was indeed in jest. And there’s a good chance I was the Netflix engineer who told you that.

To be fair though when we launched it at Netflix we knew it would break things. But we also knew we had the corporate will to deal with it.

[_skel → jedberg]

> But we also knew we had the corporate will to deal with it.

That's really the key. If you don't have that, it's not going to work out in the long term.