Pioneered out of the halls of Netflix during its shift from distributing DVDs to building distributed cloud systems for streaming video, Chaos Monkey introduced an engineering principle that has been embraced by software development organizations of all shapes and sizes: namely, that by intentionally breaking systems you can learn to make them more resilient.
According to the original Netflix blog post on the topic, published in July 2011 by Yury Izrailevsky, then director of cloud and systems infrastructure, and Ariel Tseitlin, director of cloud solutions at the streaming company, Chaos Monkey was designed to randomly disable production instances on its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, thus exposing weaknesses that Netflix engineers could eliminate by building better automatic recovery mechanisms.
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