Three Takes on Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering Ed note: The first time I read Dr. David Woods' paper Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering, I felt so many things click in my brain. While the field of Resilience Engineering is not new, those of ...

The words robustness, reliability, and resilience are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Four members discuss a canonical paper about what distinguishes them, and how to think about moving towards sustained adaptability instead.
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You're Missing Your Near Misses (Originally posted at Surfing Complexity) FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: ...

"...if we are serious about wanting to improve reliability, we should be treating our near misses as first-class entities, the way we do with incidents."
—@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com

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Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation Software failures are inevitable. No matter how hard we try, we can’t make our systems flawless, nor can we predict every possible problem. The systems we’re building today are beyond the mental model...

Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation: a multi-disciplinary group interested in networking with and learning from each other's unique experiences, and helping to disseminate their knowledge to the broader software industry as a whole. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1092580

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