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by iwontberude 166 days ago
At Netflix when this article was written, Cloud Engineering accomplishing failure injection with circuit breakers which essentially were L7 proxies. Chaos engineering was more than killing instances. There was a whole simian army after all. They would inject latency, error codes, etc and simulate tiers of the application failing. It’s not nearly as unsophisticated as your making it seem.