Service Continuity Architectures

Service Continuity Architectures

Yanked from the Circuit: Comparing Active-Active and Active-Passive Continuity Workflows

In the high-stakes world of system reliability, the choice between active-active and active-passive continuity workflows can determine whether an inci...

Service Continuity Architectures

The Conceptual Yank: Comparing Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Continuity Workflows

Problem / Stakes / Reader ContextWhen designing a system that must remain available through failures, one of the earliest and most consequential decis...

Service Continuity Architectures

Yanked from the Draft: Comparing Stateless and Stateful Service Continuity Patterns

Introduction: The Core Continuity DilemmaWhen a service fails mid-request, what happens to the work already done? This question, simple in phrasing, l...

Service Continuity Architectures

Yanked from the Runbook: Comparing 'Human-in-the-Loop' vs. 'Fully-Automated' Failure Response Processes

The Core Philosophical Tension: Control vs. SpeedIn my practice, the debate between human-in-the-loop (HITL) and fully-automated response often starts...

Service Continuity Architectures

The Conceptual Yank: Pulling Apart 'Chaos Engineering' vs. 'Resilience Testing' Workflows

Introduction: The Cost of Conceptual ConflationIn my practice, I've been called into more than one post-mortem where a team declared their system "res...