and now to the Software Systems. When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. Edward Norton Lorenz
happen. • Distributed systems contains moving parts. • Many things can go wrong. ◦ Hard disks can fail. ◦ The network can go down. ◦ Surge in customer traffic can overload.
imperfect place. We talk a lot about building resilient systems, but all systems are (at least for now) built by humans. Vicky Brasseur The Software Systems are built by Humans! but we can control them. Mine :)
factors. An increase in resilience (e.g., though redundancy) can result in higher performance and in higher power consumption (as more hardware). Saurabh Hukerikar Christian Engelmann