Designing for Failure in Digital Systems

Your entire digital life hangs by a much thinner thread than you realize. We obsess over hackers

in hoodies, but the real threat to the internet is usually just a bad software update

or a literal storm. Look at the CrowdStrike outage. That wasn't a cyberattack; it was a simple

human error that grounded planes and froze banks worldwide. This is the difference

between security and robustness. It’s not just about stopping the bad guys.

It’s about realizing the cloud is actually physical servers and messy code that breaks constantly.

If we don't design for failure, the whole system collapses.