Some of the article is sales-pitchy, but this part of it is spot on: "Complexity on its own makes a system less reliable" They were writing about the fire alert

Some of the article is sales-pitchy, but this part of it is spot on: "Complexity on its own makes a system less reliable" They were writing about the fire alert system, but it is relevant to pretty much any software/hardware system you care to think about. I do not think that the bundle of technologies we call the "internet", has gotten less complex or easier to interpret, in the last decade. On the other hand, there are a lot more critical systems that depend on it. Sort of like the presence of fuel and oxygen; a spark is guaranteed eventually.