Defending Against Complexity With Exercise
cloud203027 Touko 2022

Defending Against Complexity With Exercise

How do you manage complexity? Something we talk about a lot in Cloud2030 is how challenging it is to understand complexity, measure it and cope with it. Richard Cooke wrote a paper called “How Complex Systems Fail,” (http://how.complexsystems.fail) and in it he talks about complex systems having strong defense mechanisms against failure. That’s what we talked about today. How do we build defense mechanisms for complex systems, not by making them simpler, but by exercising them and testing them? We discuss the importance of testing, validation, and layer of abstraction and testing the layers in this conversation. If you deal with complex systems, this discussion will be fascinating and actionable. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/SP-z7OAJWAmJlql8Dh62rNk2hlo Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-woman-morning-young-4058411/

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