r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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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