How I Fired Myself

Re:How I Fired Myself by r00fus on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:54PM (#5294470)

Apple did this before Amazon or Netflix in this regard [1], but the point needs to be made that a system needs to be tested and not just in a controlled aseptic way, because the real world isn't.

Another story supporting Chaos Monkey is what the Obama team did for their Narwhal infrastructure - they staged outages and random failures to prepare for their big day, meanwhile Romney's team who outspent the Obama team at least an order of magnitude, had their system fail on e-day.

[1] http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Monkey_Lives.txt

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Re:How I Fired Myself by pc86 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:10PM (#5294564)

I'd like to see a source for Romney outspending the Obama team "at least" 10x, because while I can speak from experience that ORCA was a gigantic piece of shit, it's not like the Obama people were struggling to pay their bills.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by danso on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:44PM (#5294772)

I don't know what metric the parent comment is referring to, but in terms of technology stack, I can fully believe that the Romney team spent more than Obama's team. Here's a post by one of the creators of the fundraising platform:

http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio...

The short of it is: they used static HTML generated by Jekyll and stored on S3.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by pc86 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:40PM (#5295148)

I actually had that post in my mind when writing my reply, but I assumed r00fus was referring to ORCA and Narwhal specifically.

> ... what the Obama team did for their Narwhal infrastructure - they staged outages and random failures to prepare for their big day, meanwhile Romney's team who outspent the Obama team at least an order of magnitude, had their system fail on e-day.

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