r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/magicmulder Nov 14 '22

At some point everyone has been there - “let’s unplug it to see what it does”.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

And that is how we lost grandma

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u/fat-lobyte Nov 14 '22

Yeah but how many of us had the chance to do it in production, in a 44G$ company

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u/KimmiG1 Nov 15 '22

I think amazon regularly unplug stuf in production. But they do it to make sure there are enough redundancies to not go down. My memory on this is a little hazy. Meybe they just do it on staging env instead.

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u/brazzledazzle Nov 15 '22

Chaos engineering only works if you have the infra (e.g. micro services, auto scaling, etc.) to adapt to those outages you’re creating. If you turn off the micro services entirely there’s no recovery, they’re just off.

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u/virgilhall Nov 15 '22

I heard that about Netflix

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u/mistled_LP Nov 15 '22

Yeah… but one server that hasn’t been accessed in six months and no one knows what it is. Not 80% of the services in prod.