
Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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The instant New York Times best seller, now featuring a new afterword from the author - the insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley.
Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test Online services’ robustness - their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.
After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.
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Critic reviews
“Incisive... The most fun business book I have read this year... Clearly there will be people who hate this book - which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” (Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times)
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For Silicon Valley outsiders, this book offers a lot of interesting insights on the Tech world (startup culture, compensation, hiring practices, etc). Also, Antonio Garcia does a great job of explaining how the digital ad world functions, and dispels a lot of misconceptions on the average netizens' data privacy fears. The authors takes on Facebook and its multitude of scandals (Cambridge Analytica, 2016 Election Campaigns, Russian Meddling, etc) are thought provoking.
The Bad:
For the content on offer, this book could've been a bit shorter. Additionally, there are several parts in the book where the author's attempts at sounding 'poetic', end up being cringe worthy. And then, there is the blatant misogyny peppered throughout the book.
Overall, this book is worth a one time read.
A one time read
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A bit brazen, and non - technical.
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