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Re:Resilience engineering: Where do I start? by fao_ on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:23PM (#19925890)
> "Working around failures" and "staying functional in the face of failures" sound borderline synonymous to me

One is going around the iceberg, the other is ensuring the Titanic can sail on with a couple of huge holes in it's hull.

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Re:Resilience engineering: Where do I start? by vageli on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:24PM (#19993122)
If the Titanic does not hit the iceberg, it does not enter a failure mode. That doesn't sound like "working around failures" but "avoiding failure" which seems very different.
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