[drather19]

While Netflix as a company is focused at doing one specific thing at large scale, they're heavily vested in microservices and do actually have "thousands of apps that are all doing very different things".

Chaos Monkey fits when people build and deploy their services with the notion that any particular instance (or dependency) could fail at any given time. It's a tough road to evolve out of a legacy, monolithic stack without much redundancy baked in.

[JetSetWilly]

Whether they have broken up their apps into microservices doesn't seem to matter to me. That's just a matter of how they have organised their code, whether the actual app is monolithic or microlithic doesn't seem to matter.

They have a focussed business with relatively little variation in how they make money - all their customers simply pay for a streaming service.

Most large companies, certainly banks anyway, have thousands of apps because there's also thousands of different parts of the business making money in their own unique ways that have their own unique needs.

What works for netflix therefore can't work for other businesses, because the actual business is much more heterogenous than that of netflix and the technology will reflect that whether it is organised in microservices or monolithically - that's totally irrelevant.