They even built a tool, dubbed Chaos Monkey, that causes random things to fail in their infrastructure so they can learn to avoid outages like this one.

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But Mr Bush has chosen a horribly complicated country in which to learn the business of nation-building he was once so anxious to avoid.

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He says anaesthetists want to learn more about accidental awareness so they can avoid more patients experiencing it.

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