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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by aaronblohowiak on Sunday June 02, 2019 @11:25PM (#20080172)
We don’t usually discuss the frequency of unplanned failovers, but I will tell you that we do a planned failover at least every two weeks. The team also uses traffic shaping to perform whole system load tests with production traffic, which happens quarterly.
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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by justinator on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:11AM (#20080557)
Do you do any chaos testing? Seems like it would slot right in, there.
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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by Zobat on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:58AM (#20080998)
I'd say yes. I heard about this tool just a week ago at a developer conference.

https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by a_t48 on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:41AM (#20081180)
Netflix was a pioneer of chaos testing, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by aaronblohowiak on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:32PM (#20089053)
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/chaos-engineering/97814... ;)
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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by arainwater on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:20AM (#20081096)
they have invented the term, so probably yes :)
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