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Being a software developer drives one fundamental lesson into you: Software is not reliable. Now, by and large the services that we use every day are extremely reliable. To my memory Google Search has essentially never been “down”, and when Facebook went down it was national news. Each of these services still experience regular failures. […]

Computing has become a ubiquitous and fundamental part of our everyday life. But it was not all this way, the role of computing has steadily increased in both it’s availability and importance until today, where the management of practically every complex system has been deferred to a computer of some kind or other. Managing these […]