It's amazing to me that something I threw out in a meeting six years ago became an entire engineering culture.<p>It all started when we were talking about what to call the folks who were building things like Chaos Monkey/Gorilla/Kong and I said, "Let's call them Chaos Engineers, since they are engineering chaos". And so we adopted that title at Netflix, and now here we are.<p>I should also point out here how valueless what I did was -- I literally just came up with the name for what we were already doing inside Netflix. Everyone else actually wrote it down and spread it outside of Netflix. Their contributions to spreading the word are far more important than the name I came up with.