On 5. Oct 2021, at 07:42, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:15 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: >> They have a monkey patch subsystem. Lol. > > Yes, actually, they do. They use Chef extensively to configure > operating systems. Chef is written in Ruby. Ruby has something called > Monkey Patches.
While Ruby indeed has a chain-saw (read: powerful, dangerous, still the tool of choice in certain cases) in its toolkit that is generally called “monkey-patching”, I think Michael was actually thinking about the “chaos monkey”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Monkey https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ That was a Netflix invention, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Facebook_Storm Grüße, Carsten
