Towards system resilience

Nothing has the potential to ruin a product or even an organization more than software instability. Most of us get excited by focusing on developing new features or services and we neglect the operation thereof. Agile methodologies mostly focus on product development. In large organisations with hundreds of systems this is not enough. You need more than just a methodology achieve resilience.

Mike Murphy is undoubtedly an expert when it comes to resilience. An expert for me is someone who has the scars of years of sleepless nights and ruined weekends because of a system being down AND and who has the theoretical background on the subject matter. Mike is such a person

In this first part of three articles we will focus on the causes of system instability. Read more here.