How Netflix Built Chaos Engineering for APIs

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Episode 14 of The API Podcast digs into chaos engineering for APIs — the practice of deliberately breaking your own endpoints to find weaknesses before they break in production. Lucas and Luna walk through how Netflix developed the Simian Army, starting with Chaos Monkey in 2011, and why failure injection is now a standard resilience technique for large-scale API systems. They break down the concrete tools: Chaos Monkey for random instance termination, Chaos Kong for simulating a full AWS region outage, and the post-incident patterns that make a team actually learn from the chaos. They also discuss how smaller teams can apply chaos engineering without Netflix-scale infrastructure, using open-source tools like Litmus and Gremlin's free tier. No dry theory — just a real engineering story and a practical framework for making your API fault-tolerant. #ChaosEngineering #Netflix #SimianArmy #ChaosMonkey #ChaosKong #APIReliability #Resilience #FaultInjection #AWSRegionFailure #OpenSource #LitmusChaos #Gremlin #IncidentResponse #Technology #APIPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #SoftwareEngineering Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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This episode was published on May 27, 2026.

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Episode 14 of The API Podcast digs into chaos engineering for APIs — the practice of deliberately breaking your own endpoints to find weaknesses before they break in production. Lucas and Luna walk through how Netflix developed the Simian Army,...

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