They shut down servers and components of the system to make sure they are resilent to failures.
> The Simian Army is a suite of tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey, the first member, is a resiliency tool that helps ensure that your applications can tolerate random instance failures
They shut down servers and components of the system to make sure they are resilent to failures.
> The Simian Army is a suite of tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey, the first member, is a resiliency tool that helps ensure that your applications can tolerate random instance failures
More interestingly is that it is opensource. [2]
[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
[2] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy