by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 22, 2019 | Systems
Joe Armstrong pioneered the engineering of fault tolerant, concurrent systems. Throughout his career he asked and answered: How can we program systems which behave in a reasonable manner in the presence of software errors? He surmised that: Large systems will probably... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 15, 2019 | Cloud, Systems
Avg Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, we’ll introduce the concept of a Failure Domain, which is very important to understand and use when building systems, especially those in the Cloud. Let’s start with a high-level view of a layered application stack with... 