Updated: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:26 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > > On 10/5/21 12:17 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > > 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/ > > No, chaos monkey is a purposeful thing to induce corner case errors so > they can be fixed. The earlier outage involved a config sanitizer that > screwed up and then pushed it out. I can't get my head around why > anybody thought that was a good idea vs rejecting it and making somebody > fix the config. > > Mike > > > -- Randy Monroe Network Engineering [image: Uber] <https://uber.com/>
