The monkey "creates mischief like shutting down Netflix’s own subsystems randomly and challenging the other subsystems to adapt on the fly.each part of its system is designed to fight its way through on its own, tolerating failure from other systems upon which it normally depends."
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Online movie provider Netflix stress tests their software by releasing a "chaos monkey" into the system. Companies strive for the "5 nines," or 99.999% availability, although a more realistic number is a "4 nine," or 99.99% (which represents less than one hour of downtime per year). In the latest news from the frontier of Internet technology, the NY Times presented an interesting article about the work that high tech providers are doing to ensure maximum system availability.
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