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The System as Organism

Building fault-tolerant, high-availability (FTHA) systems has a dark side; an engineering trade off of between reliability and predictability. This should be obvious to anyone who has studied biological organisms. I define an organism as a complex system partitioned into highly specialized and tightly interrelated parts. This can describe a cell, a human being, or a FTHA system whether it supports an e-commerce site, vital infrastructure control, process control, or command and control.

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