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Is anyone else reminded of coupling in software design? Seems to be essentially the same arguments for reducing coupling of supply chain elements. Having multip

Is anyone else reminded of coupling in software design? Seems to be essentially the same arguments for reducing coupling of supply chain elements. Having multiple suppliers is only beneficial if they are independent/de-coupled themselves. Im imagining companies with two suppliers who are both dependant on a mineral provider in the same region etc.

jungturk 4y ago
Indeed - seems like the resilience strategies we use in distributed software apply? In my experience it took some time for businesses to accept the extra expense and complexity required to guarantee service levels (though many have come around). I wonder how much more difficult that realization is for actors when their interests diverge (states, corporations, etc...) - i.e. the corp wants to streamline to increase profits, the state wants to robustify to maintain order, etc...
- rbanffy 4y ago
  > Indeed - seems like the resilience strategies we use in distributed software apply? OTOH, they may create unintended emerging behaviours that are hard to predict. We have seen more than one cascading failure caused by each service doing its best to not cause a cascading failure.