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Do simpler systems fail better?


Do simpler systems fail better? - by Sean Hull - Medium

I was recently reading Greg Kogan's blog Simple Systems have less downtime. It really caught my attention.

How Simple Systems Fail. - Dan Ward

As complexity increases, so does the number of potential failure modes. Simple systems thus have fewer ways to fail than complex alternatives ...

Why large systems fail and simple systems don't - YouTube

... better technology doesnt mean better tweets 13:48 - tragedy of the commons Source: https://www.amazon.com/SYSTEMANTICS-SYSTEMS-BIBLE-John ...

Simple systems are better than optimized systems to start - Scott Miker

But as those systems begin to get developed they will naturally allow for more complexity. If we start with an instantly complex system, it is ...

How Complex Systems Fail – Perspectives - James Hamilton's Blog

For new feature development, I can relate to the new failure paths that we add to a well understood system. I think this could be attributed to increased ...

If you have a complex project, follow "Gall's law" — or it will fail

Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster.

Simple Is Often Better - by Michael Fisher - Medium

When we design items, there are systems that need not be included in the development as it provides a level of complexity that is often unneeded ...

Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

If it is too complex, it must be decentralized so that their component parts are better understood in a smaller scope. The greatest risk lies in ...

Fail Better: With Guests Joseph Herscher & Lauren Eskreis-Winkler

... failure so it's not as threatening. A much simpler way to do this is something we did in our studies, which is, hey, if you don't want ...

How Complex Systems Fail: A Synopsis – BMC Software | Blogs

Therefore, the avoidance of failure inherently increases the complexity of any given system. The next logical inference given is that the more ...

How Complex Systems Fail

When new technologies are used to eliminate well understood system failures or to gain high precision performance they often introduce new pathways to large ...

Why this social change agent wants you to 'fail better' | MIT Sloan

One thing about the process described in “Fail Better” is creating space and time to embed the learning that comes out of the work we do every ...

How Complex Systems Fail - The Morning Paper

This is a wonderfully short and easy to read paper looking at how complex systems fail – it's written by a Doctor (MD) in the context of systems ...

Don't Just Fail—Fail Better - LinkedIn

I want to talk about your failures — and about how you can fail better. ... Learning from failure isn't easy. Our brains are wired up to ...

Strategies for Learning from Failure - Harvard Business Review

Although serious failures can be averted by following best practices for safety and risk management, including a thorough analysis of any such events that do ...

How to Fail Better - Justin Howard

DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a principle used in software development to minimize duplicated code and redundant systems, but it can be ...

Fail Again. Fail Better | USAID Learning Lab

It's not new anymore, so there's less excitement at having invented something. We're not discovering data and themes for the first time. In a ...

Fail Better | Command Line Heroes - Red Hat

Command Line Heroes considers harnessing failure for success. Embracing mistakes can have amazing results. We pull back the curtain on some great successes ...

Fail Better: What we can learn from losing - The Source

That sort of perspective doesn't come easy or quickly, said Alan Glass, MD, assistant vice chancellor and director of Student Health Services, ...

Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner - Mind Tools

When a project fails, it can open the door to success - if you lay the groundwork properly, analyze what went well and what went badly, and learn from your ...