Last winter, my city Richmond VA suffered water distribution outages for days after a blizzard. Not because of one big failure, but because backup pumps failed, sensors misread, alerts got buried, and then another pump died during recovery. The whole city ended up under a boil‑water advisory. Sound familiar? Replace “water pumps” with “microservices” and […]
Designing for Failure: 4 Resilience Practices That Make Outages Boring
By drweb
