Resiliency
Design patterns and working practices for systems that survive failure — from the mindset shift in the Resiliency Series to the concrete isolation boundaries of Cell-Based Architecture.
Resiliency Series
3 posts- Building Resilient Systems: Patterns & Implementation — Part 3
Coming soon — Part 3 of the Resiliency Series.
Apr 5, 2026 - Building Resilient Systems: Anatomy of Failures — Part 2
Coming soon — Part 2 of the Resiliency Series.
Apr 11, 2026 - Architecture Resilience: Best Practices & Working Practices on AWS
17 years in platform architecture distilled: the design patterns and team working practices that make resilient systems on AWS actually stick in production.
Jun 13, 2026
Cell-Based Architecture
2 posts- Cell-Based Architecture (Part 4): The Selection Matrix — Balancing Resilience, Cost, and Complexity
Recap the journey: From the definition (Part 1), to routing/sharding (Part 2), and implementation (Part 3). Now, the most critical question: Which isolation …
May 10, 2026 - Cell-Based Architecture (Part 5): Multi-Platform Cells — Resilience Across Clouds and On-Prem
Part 4 ranked six isolation boundaries — five live inside one cloud. The sixth, multi-platform, is the only cell that survives losing the cloud itself. Here is …
May 30, 2026
More Resiliency Posts
1 post- From Failure to Resiliency: Building Resilient Systems - Embracing Failure Part-1
secret to building resilient systems is to assume everything will fail
Apr 1, 2026