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their service might exhibit problems with long-lived instances that they never notice because Chaos Monkey tends to terminate instances before they hit those problems

Tangential to the main point of the article, but I've seen this exact failure before! I worked at a retailer that would reboot all point-of-sale devices daily, after stores closed. The day before biggest sales day of the year, the team decided to leave the devices online overnight - sometimes a device would fail to come back online after the reboot, so leaving them on would prevent that sort of issue.

Of course, one bug or another reared its head after 24 hours of uptime. We ended up rebooting all of the devices anyway.

I've been working on getting our Java code running on Windows. It's going alright, but I had to shut off the garbage collector altogether - whenever it runs, all of our JARs end up in the Recycle Bin.

Thanks for putting this out! I caught a Gremlin talk at a recent conference and was very impressed with how knowledgeable the developers were.

How does the Gremlin platform interact with one of my hosts? Do I need to install an agent or something? Does it need root access to my host, hypervisor, cloud console?