It gets a lot more complicated from there. The financial system has developed ever more complex systems for channeling money. The purpose of these complications is to wring slightly greater profits out of the system. Competition is intense, and the slightest edge can produce massive profits; hence...
The observations by Peterson and Arellano have profound implications, not just for complex software, but for complex systems in general. This report will take their analysis one step further. A unified theory of failure rates will be presented that removes the paradoxes of the simple Rayleigh ...
How Complex Systems Fail Thanks for Rodolfo Velasco for pointing this article out. Somewhat related, some time back I wrote up some of what I’ve come across over the years on how to avoid systems failing: Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Systems...
Our Systems Thinking methodology is compatible with agile working. We help you restructure processes across your enterprise, to ‘fail fast’ and find more robust solutions, more quickly Ecosystemisation Every organisation is a network of related systems working as a whole. We help you innovate acr...
System failures can significantly impact user experience by causing frustration, delays, and inconvenience. When systems fail, users may be unable to access critical services, lose unsaved work, or experience disruptions in their workflow. This can result in decreased productivity, increased stress, and...
How Complex Systems Fail- “Short treatise on the nature of failure; how failure is evaluated; how failure is attributed to proximate cause; and the resulting new understanding of patient safety”. Normalization of deviance- Explores how the factors accounting for disasters accumulates unnoticed until...
Systems and How They Fail Abstract Security is never simple. It’s more than a series of countermeasures—security is a complex system that interacts with itself, the assets being protected, and the surrounding environment. These interactions affect security in a profound way. They are the points...
NOTE: On some systems, the authc commands may fail with an "incorrect password" error even when the correct password is given. This is due to the password being specified as visible text with the -p option. If you encounter this, remove -p password from the commands. You will be prompte...
In this article, Toptal Solutions Architect Dr. Kyle Kotowick explains how to properly maintain and update systems that are too important to fail. Every enterprise has a “critical” infrastructure. Generally, this means that if the system goes offline, parts (or all) of the business will come...
Statistics show that 58% of organizations face database corruption at least once annually. A more alarming fact reveals that 40% of businesses fail to recover from catastrophic data loss. Your Access database might stop working or show corruption signs without warning. This situation creates immense...