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What We Can Learn from Netflix Chaos Engineering for Model Robustness

LLMs don’t just fail silently — they fail expensively. Here's how chaos engineering principles can prevent your model from becoming a black box in production.

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Sharon Sahadevan
Jun 28, 2025
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Netflix streams billions of hours of video every month.

To keep things running, their engineers don’t just monitor failures — they create them on purpose.

They simulate outages, kill services, overload systems, and unplug entire regions — all to answer one question:

"Will the system still behave predictably?"

Now imagine asking that same question about your…

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