Netflix open sources Chaos Monkey

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Bryan Behrenshausen
Aug 1, 2012

Netflix has made its storied Chaos Monkey???a software service that deliberately attacks and randomly disables resources the company runs in the Amazon Web Services cloud???available on GitHub under an Apache license.

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