Resilience vs. Fault tolerance
Are they the same thing?
In this post, I will discuss if there is a difference between resilience and fault tolerance when talking about IT systems.
Are they the same thing?
In this post, I will discuss if there is a difference between resilience and fault tolerance when talking about IT systems.
A new paradigm for the 21st century
Resilience IMO is a huge topic. It has a broader scope than most people think and – even more important – it has become much more relevant for most of us than most people imagine. Thus, time to shed some light on this topic. Over the course of several posts in the future I will discuss several aspects of resilience. Of course, my main focus will still be IT. But in some places I will leave the boundaries of IT as this topic affects – and supports – us in many ways.
What we can learn from the latest AWS outage
There was a bigger outage at AWS this week, and of course media coverage was big again. E.g., “Amazon Web Services outage hobbles businesses”, titles the Washington Post, just to name one.