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A Platform for Automating Chaos Experiments

Software Engineering 2017-02-21 v1
Authors: Ali Basiri , Aaron Blohowiak , Lorin Hochstein , Casey Rosenthal
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Abstract

The Netflix video streaming system is composed of many interacting services. In such a large system, failures in individual services are not uncommon. This paper describes the Chaos Automation Platform, a system for running failure injection experiments on the production system to verify that failures in non-critical services do not result in system outages.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05849,
  title  = {A Platform for Automating Chaos Experiments},
  author = {Ali Basiri and Aaron Blohowiak and Lorin Hochstein and Casey Rosenthal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05849},
  year   = {2017}
}

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