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Re:Employees given three months to return to Facebook office by svachalek on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:40PM (#28788746)
This is why Netflix has a policy of routinely breaking things on purpose. If all your other practices are pretty decent, it's easy to build up false confidence based on all the disasters that you haven't actually prevented, just made unlikely.
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Re:Employees given three months to return to Facebook office by ChicagoBoy11 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:09PM (#28790799)
One of the tools they have that helps with that:

https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

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Re:Employees given three months to return to Facebook office by stemuk on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:57PM (#28789039)
Facebook does in fact habe this as well, they regularly even take out entire datacenters to see if the remaining ones take over automatically.
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