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		aaronblohowiak on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Cloud Is Down We don’t usually discuss the frequency of unplanned failovers, but I will tell you that we do a planned failover at least every two weeks. The team also uses traffic shaping to perform whole system load tests with production traffic, which happens quarterly.

justinator on June 3, 2019 [–]

Do you do any chaos testing? Seems like it would slot right in, there.

Zobat on June 3, 2019 | | [–]

I'd say yes. I heard about this tool just a week ago at a developer conference.

https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

a_t48 on June 3, 2019 | | | [–]

Netflix was a pioneer of chaos testing, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering

aaronblohowiak on June 3, 2019 | | | [–]

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/chaos-engineering/97814... ;)

arainwater on June 3, 2019 | | [–]

they have invented the term, so probably yes :)

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