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Re:How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by sfrench on Monday April 25, 2011 @11:34AM (#2481547)
Netflix (who also survived the outage) wrote a blogpost last year in which they talked about a system they call "Chaos Monkey" which does this exact thing.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...

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Re:How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by joegester on Monday April 25, 2011 @02:29PM (#2482325)
I don't think they meant that they were doing that on live systems. Sounds like a debugging tool.
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