This is an interesting question, and seems to get to the core of Nassim Taleb's ideas [1] about fragility and the limits of what we can understand, and how many

This is an interesting question, and seems to get to the core of Nassim Taleb's ideas [1] about fragility and the limits of what we can understand, and how many of our attempts to create artificial stability ultimately bring about the opposite. That said, based on this post-mortem, I think Google, and our industry as a whole, is doing a pretty good job. Periodic failures like this are inevitable, and if they serve to make it less likely that a similar failure occurs in the future, then that is a system as a whole that could be described as "anti-fragile". [1] At least my interpretation of them