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Re:Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages by perfmode on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:54PM (#19267297)
Server crashes happen. This forces you to deal with them instead of pretending they won’t.
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Re:Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages by Negitivefrags on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:16PM (#19267446)
Well yes, but I would suggest that they are uncommon enough that a few requests failing isn't a problem when those happen.

It's an entirely different story when you are killing processes constantly.

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Re:Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages by tylersmith on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:00PM (#19268870)
If "a few requests failing isn't a problem" is a reasonable statement in your company then this type of service isn't really aimed at you. The point is to help shake out fault tolerance issues. If you can already tolerate faults there isn't much of an issue.
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Re:Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages by perfmode on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:36PM (#19267562)
It doesn’t _need_ to be constantly. The important part is that it is done _deliberately_ to understand what happens when failures occur.
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