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Now for sale: Failure as a Service.

For 10 cents per minute, AWS will you charge you to break the infrastructure you are renting from them (while also charging you for renting it).

docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest

This method of success-through-failure was pioneered by Netflix which built a "chaos monkey" to randomly break 10% of their infra at any time. This forced Netflix to design everything to be redundant and self-healing.

Go forth and fail like no others dare fail!

docs.aws.amazon.comWhat is AWS Fault Injection Service? - AWS Fault Injection ServiceLearn how AWS Fault Injection Service can enable you to perform fault injection experiments on your AWS workloads.

Today I learnt about a real world invention called The Tempest Prognosticator:

"A 19th-century invention ... in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an approaching storm, they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which strikes a bell. The likelihood of a storm is indicated by the number of times the bell is struck. ... The original device has been lost, but at least three replicas have been made."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_

en.wikipedia.orgTempest prognosticator - Wikipedia