On 5. Oct 2021, at 07:42, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 6:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
They have a monkey patch subsystem. Lol.
Yes, actually, they do. They use Chef extensively to configure operating systems. Chef is written in Ruby. Ruby has something called Monkey Patches.
While Ruby indeed has a chain-saw (read: powerful, dangerous, still the tool of choice in certain cases) in its toolkit that is generally called “monkey-patching”, I think Michael was actually thinking about the “chaos monkey”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Monkey https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/ That was a Netflix invention, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Facebook_Storm Grüße, Carsten