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Netflix (who also survived the outage) wrote a blogpost last year in which they talked about a system they call "Chaos Monkey" which does this exact thing.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...



I don't think they meant that they were doing that on live systems. Sounds like a debugging tool.




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