When you build and operate in high-stakes, chaotic environments, you have to plan for failure. The Stoics had a name for thinking ahead about this: premeditatio malorum—the deliberate contemplation of ...

When Pascuala’s 20-year-old son, Mateo, was shot and killed while walking down the street near their home, she did what Mexican authorities urge all victims of violent crime to do: she went to the ...

We may earn revenue from products featured on this page through affiliate links. Most people think they’re prepared because they’ve imagined the moment everything goes wrong. They picture a power ...

Photo courtesy of kjpargeter on Magnific. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Every few months, another high-profile AI platform announces an outage, a degraded response ...

The September 2025 ransomware attack on European airports left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. Reuters reported that ENISA confirmed a cyberattack on a third-party boarding system provider ...

In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are ...

Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently.