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by yavor-atanasov
2687 days ago
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At the BBC a few years ago we completely replaced our Chaos Monkey setup with a "chaos-lambda". It's extremely simple to setup and saves us a chunk of cash in terms of compute and maintenance. I'm sure Chaos Monkey is more featureful, but a lot of times you don't really need these features. If you just need something that ticks on a cron and kills instances at random across your estate and you have a good amount AWS accounts, have a look. https://github.com/bbc/chaos-lambda It's always good to see this "chaos culture" being promoted as it drives best engineering practices in terms of architecting, testing and monitoring resilient systems. However it's also interesting to see how at times this space gets inflated, packaged and sold as this big complicated thing that requires "chaos engineers" to implement (almost like "agile" got inflated into a stand alone industry :)). It's just a set of good practices that engineers can do to improve critical systems. |
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