From

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/

He came to the startling realization that people were solving the wrong problem. “The problem is,” he said, “that we don’t understand the problem.”

From http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html

We’ve sometimes referred to the Netflix software architecture in AWS as our Rambo Architecture. Each system has to be able to succeed, no matter what, even all on its own. We’re designing each distributed system to expect and tolerate failure from other systems on which it depends.

And:

One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage.