Summary and Analysis of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Chaos Monkey: A program that randomly tests parts of a system to try to make it fail. It’s a form of destructive testing.

Initial Public Offering (IPO):

Start-up: A small company seeking investment to create and promote its product.

Dogfooding: Using your own technical product.

Vesting: In this case, when stock options are conferred to you.

Endless toil motivated by lapidary ideals handed down by a revered and unquestioned leader, and put into practice by a leadership caste selected for its adher

everyone must work for the good of the state—to the capitalist ethos at Facebook, where everyone must work for the good of the company.

adherence to aforementioned principles, and richly rewarded for its willingness to grind whatever human grist the mill required?”

Beltway Boomers: A particular customer demographic. In their 40s or 50s, these consumers usually have late marriages and children, and fall into the upper middle class

Application Programming Interface (API): A set of protocols and tools for building software.