The difference between organisms and machines
“resilience emerges not from rigidity, but from flexible adaptation”
In the world of cloud computing the ultra-reliable system assumes that its parts are unreliable. Google cloud software is written with the expectation that parts will fail -- the software must succeed even when parts are failing at the level below.
I love this!!!!!!! Been traveling by to name this difference and put my finger on it and you’ve done it so succinctly
“resilience emerges not from rigidity, but from flexible adaptation”
In the world of cloud computing the ultra-reliable system assumes that its parts are unreliable. Google cloud software is written with the expectation that parts will fail -- the software must succeed even when parts are failing at the level below.
I love this!!!!!!! Been traveling by to name this difference and put my finger on it and you’ve done it so succinctly