Chaos Engineering
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Imagine stress-testing a bridge by parking trucks on it before opening day instead of hoping it holds. Netflix invented Chaos Engineering by literally writing software (Chaos Monkey) to randomly kill production servers. The insight: if you break things on purpose under controlled conditions, you're less surprised when they break on their own.
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