> Now imagine declaring an extended period of time where, in the interest of reducing risk(!), no new code is deployed, and Chaos Monkey is disabled.
I remember reading about similar experiment in biology:
If you have a petri dish full of bacteria, and you gradually introduce antibiotics, not only will your bacteria population grow resistant to the antibiotics over time, but there metabolism even might become dependent on it.
You see, biology is a system as least as complicated as any computing infrastructure we have.
(Compare also most organisms these days being reliant on oxygen. Or how humans lost the ability to make vitamin C in their bodies.)
> You see, biology is a system as least as complicated as any computing infrastructure we have.
One of my first bosses describes the opposite relationship. We tend to think technology is very rationalized. He once told me that we should think about the system we were building as an organism. Build it, but also play with it and get to know it, because it will have its own personality.
Here is a video on the topic of bacteria in an experiment evolving to use a second source of food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4sLAQvEH-M. I'm not sure if they depend on it being present though.
I remember reading about similar experiment in biology:
If you have a petri dish full of bacteria, and you gradually introduce antibiotics, not only will your bacteria population grow resistant to the antibiotics over time, but there metabolism even might become dependent on it.
You see, biology is a system as least as complicated as any computing infrastructure we have.
(Compare also most organisms these days being reliant on oxygen. Or how humans lost the ability to make vitamin C in their bodies.)