by ingrid on 2/27/19, 4:55 PM
Ha, after working on building Uber’s chaos monkey (which was hard and took a while to build) and working with Netflix’s chaos monkey — it’s super nice to see Gremlin release this service so anyone can see the benefits of chaos engineering. I hope they add a “random chaos” feature to keep engineers on their feet. ;-)
by lklig on 2/27/19, 4:52 PM
Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!
by goldenkey on 2/28/19, 1:46 AM
Failure as a service doesn't make all that much sense considering that a many failure scenarios would make the target host inaccessible to Gremlin.
How does Gremlin handle this?
by djb_hackernews on 2/27/19, 6:38 PM
Is anyone aware of a chaos tool that isn't a SaaS (free or not) and doesn't require using Spinnaker like the current Netflix chaos tool does?
by Negitivefrags on 2/27/19, 9:24 PM
So here is what I don't get about this stuff.
What happens to the in-flight requests? Don't a few users run into random errors whenever a host is killed unexpectedly?
You could have your loadbalancer retry everything that fails, but then wouldn't every single request in your app have to be idempotent?
by isuckatcoding on 2/27/19, 8:24 PM
How do you prevent abuse of this tool?
by debaserab2 on 2/28/19, 4:21 AM
What infrastructure size does one need to have where this technique is beneficial? Genuinely curious where the threshold is.
by espeed on 2/27/19, 5:34 PM
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