The Evolution of Netflix's Hardware Architecture

Chaos Monkey was an architecture design control that says we are order scaling and we want to scale down as well as up. We were running on cheap Intel hardware, the failure rates of the original M1 series instances that AWS had was a lot higher than the machines today. Everything we deployed was an order scale group. And initially we had those set at fixed levels. But if you want to shrink it, you have to figure out how do I shut down a machine? Rahul: "We switched from pets to cattle as the analogy"