There is no mention of Netflix on the site, but the term Chaos Engineering, and the popularization of the technique, seem to come from Netflix. The Chaos Monkey README even links to this site.

https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chaos-engineering-upgrad...

http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/chaos-engineering.cs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey

You might be interested in learning more about how they achieve this: http://principlesofchaos.org Also: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/chaos-engineering.cs...