Anti-fragile has some great objectives. However they're still firmly in the realm of "science" and have yet to make the transition to "engineering". As such my

Anti-fragile has some great objectives. However they're still firmly in the realm of "science" and have yet to make the transition to "engineering". As such my interest is academic. Practically, I remain a fan of recovery-oriented computing [1] - reducing the impact of harmful events, like Bohr- and Heisenbugs, amongst others. In recovery-oriented computing a Bohrbug, being mostly deterministic and easy to detect, would spawn an urgent alert. Conversely, a Heisenburg enters probation in that execution (or the execution path) is re-attempted. If that fails the app is re-started. If that fails the machine is re-started. If that fails the machine is re-imaged. If that fails the machine is removed form the farm. Automating this process is not easy (especially for desktop/native apps, which is a big part of what I do), but the concepts are (to me) good to strive for. [1] http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/