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Architecture Resilience: Best Practices & Working Practices on AWS

Resiliency Series — Bridge Post. This post synthesises Parts 1–5 into a practitioner’s playbook: the AWS architecture patterns that hold under pressure, and the team working …

Cell-Based Architecture (Part 5): Multi-Platform Cells — Resilience Across Clouds and On-Prem

“The most dangerous phrase in resilience engineering is ‘our cloud provider would never go fully down.’”

In Part 4 we laid six isolation boundaries on a …

Cell-Based Architecture (Part 4): The Selection Matrix — Balancing Resilience, Cost, and Complexity

The Million Dollor Question?

December 2021. AWS us-east-1 goes dark. Millions of applications offline. Estimated business impact: In millions per hour.

Your CIO/CTO asks: …

Building Resilient Systems: Anatomy of Failures — Part 2

Part of Reliability Under the hood Series

“If you haven’t experienced a production outage, you either don’t have enough users or you’re not monitoring …

Building Resilient Systems: Patterns & Implementation — Part 3

Where we are in this journey?

In Part 1, we established the mindset: everything fails, all the time. The question isn’t if your system will fail — it’s how badly.

In …

From Failure to Resiliency: Building Resilient Systems - Embracing Failure Part-1

After More than decade and half years of building & designing infrastructure & applications, what i realized is system resiliency is one of the crucial factor of any …