The Ironies of Reliability

Reliability promotes failures

Failures promote reliability

Reliability requires failure

A system without failures is unreliable

There are many ways to fail, but only a few to succeed

All working systems are alike; each failed system is faulty in its own way

Correct operation is transient, failure tends to be stable

Failure is the only reliable thing

Fault tolerance introduces failure

The Ironies of Reliability

By Avishai Ish-Shalom

The Ironies of Reliability

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