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 ...
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 ...
It happened again: yet another cascading failure of technology. In recent years we’ve had internet blackouts, aviation-system debacles, and now a widespread outage due to an issue affecting Microsoft ...
Why modern frontend reliability depends on handling slow cloud dependencies gracefully, not just surviving outages.
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 ...
If you’ve talked to an engineering nerd or a tech bro recently, you’ve probably heard the phrase “fail fast, fail often” a lot. The idea is simple: Value trying and learning from failure rather than ...
Resilience keeps organizations alive after a shock. Antifragility makes them structurally better because of it.