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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by ec109685 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:32AM (#29482122)
Netflix has a chaos gorilla that does something like that: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html

And even more now: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/12/active-active-for-multi-...

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by pojzon on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:39AM (#29482182)
Chaos Engineering was more or less created for a service mesh of microservices.

The companies we talk here about are most likely running a monolith app on Centos6..

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by blantonl on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:36AM (#29484494)
* raises hand :)
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by smartbit on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:09AM (#29482306)
Therefor I didn’t expect Netflix to go down. Would be interesting to learn in a postmortem why Netflix had issues despite Chaos Gorilla.
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by ec109685 on Saturday December 11, 2021 @01:18PM (#29522978)
It seems like the fact that Route53 went down for changes was a big part of it.
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by bobsmooth on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:05AM (#29483374)
I wonder how the simian army has evolved in the past decade.
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