Datagod-309892 (3/3/2014)

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I went to Amazon's first big AWS conference with a client. We attended a session included a discussion on Netflix's chaos monkey. My client was so impressed that when we got back to Canada he announced that at least once a week the "Chaos Bear" would walk into the server room and unplug any undocumented hardware. This was terrifying, but at the same time motivated the staff to finish their documentation and properly label all the racks and racks of hardware.

An interesting consequence was that sometimes servers would be shut down and nobody would notice. Those servers were NOT turned back on, and did not survive the move to another data center.