So, this isn't really geared toward any environment I'll probably find myself working in, but maybe some of you would find this read interesting. It is about how Netflix, instead a embracing a fire drill method of scheduled testing of production systems has unleashed something they call the simian army (autonomous agents meant to cause various typical failures) to introduce some chaos into the live systems. These things break shit in the live environment with the idea that the customer never notices it broke.
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2499552 Bill
