The saying goes, "complex systems fail in complex ways". Check out some of the cloud provider postmortems here for a few fascinating and detailed examples: http

The saying goes, "complex systems fail in complex ways". Check out some of the cloud provider postmortems here for a few fascinating and detailed examples: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems You could say certain failures only occur and cascade under Special Circumstances. :)