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by sgift 2893 days ago
Isn't that one of the reasons for Netflix' chaos monkey? To make sure no one thinks "my dependency will always be there"?
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That's more part of CHaP: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chap-chaos-automation-pl... and FIT: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/fit-failure-injection-te... -- it's a mechanism to artificially inject errors to understand how upstream dependencies effect your availability.