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It's really hard for us as a species to accept that in sufficiently complex systems, seemingly small issues can cascade into serious issues. In the tech sector
by hvidgaard 5y ago
It's really hard for us as a species to accept that in sufficiently complex systems, seemingly small issues can cascade into serious issues.
In the tech sector it's well known that sometimes something as innocent as a particular server failing can expose an emerging property that ends up taking down major networks such as Google, Cloudflare, Facebook or similar. This is companies with millions on the line in the case of downtimes and they spend millions ensuring that it does not happen.