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Or until the power is cycled. That's why it's best to do the crazy monkey or whatever it's called, walk into the production offline datacenter, online for testing (you do have geographically redundant datacenters right?) and pull out a half dozen random NIC cables. You can simulate with software tools but nothing beats the real test.

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> crazy monkey

Literally lol'd. It's "chaos monkey".

Chaos monkey is a simulation, I believe.

It's not a simulation, it's real-world production technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_details_of_Netflix

And it's OSS: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey

I think they meant that Netflix Chaos Monkey is a "simulation" of the real-deal, which is sending a shaved-ape into a physical server room and pulling out physical network cables. I didn't read it as derogatory.

Oh perhaps they did mean shaved-ape simulator. I read none of it as derogatory, and hopefully my response didn't suggest otherwise.

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