While Netflix as a company is focused at doing one specific thing at large scale, they&#x27;re heavily vested in microservices and do actually have &quot;thousands of apps that are all doing very different things&quot;.<p>Chaos Monkey fits when people build and deploy their services with the notion that any particular instance (or dependency) could fail at any given time. It&#x27;s a tough road to evolve out of a legacy, monolithic stack without much redundancy baked in.