{"id":2925,"date":"2010-12-16T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:12:10","slug":"the-best-way-to-avoid-failure-is-to-fail-constantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/the-best-way-to-avoid-failure-is-to-fail-constantly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Avoid Failure Is to Fail Constantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/techblog.netflix.com\/2010\/12\/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html\">John Ciancutti<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/techblog.netflix.com\/2010\/12\/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html\"><p>One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey&rsquo;s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren&rsquo;t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn&rsquo;t likely to work when it matters most &#8211; in the event of an unexpected outage.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&rsquo;s John Ciancutti: One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey&rsquo;s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren&rsquo;t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn&rsquo;t likely to work when it matters most &#8211; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[227,268],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-netflix","tag-testing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}