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Netflix is a big user of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure services—such a big user, in fact, that it has built multiple software programs that make Amazon resources more reliable. Recently, Netflix described its “Chaos Monkey,” which randomly takes Amazon virtual machines offline to help engineers identify network weaknesses. Netflix released its Chaos Monkey as open source, and this week did the same with another project, known as Eureka. Released on GitHub and described in the Netflix Tech Blog yesterday, Eureka fills a gap in Amazon Web Services by providing load balancing and failover for middle-tier servers, Netflix explained. Read the full story at ARS Technica.
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