Tag: resilience

All the articles with the tag "resilience".

• Powell's Law: Time, Progress and the Cost of Interruption in Resilient Systems

  Published: 2 Aug, 2026 |  at  11:00 AM

  A long-form position paper examining time, durable progress and recovery effort as distinct consequences of interruption in resilient systems.

• Durable Execution for Dummies: Retries Protect Calls, Workflows Protect Processes

  Published: 20 Jun, 2026 |  at  08:00 PM

  A practical explanation of durable execution, why retry libraries are not enough, and the WOWL rule: Write Once, Write Last.

• The Five Waves of Distributed Resilience

  Published: 9 Jun, 2025 |  at  06:45 PM

  Over the past 30 years, distributed systems have undergone a quiet revolution. From crude polling loops to language-native durable execution engines, the way we build and orchestrate resilient business logic has advanced through a series of distinct technological waves.