Designing for Failure: 4 Resilience Practices That Make Outages Boring

Published: 1 week ago (December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM EST)

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Source: DevOps.com

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Last winter, my city Richmond VA suffered water distribution outages for days after a blizzard. Not because of one big failure, but because backup pumps failed, sensors misread, alerts got buried, and then another pump died during recovery. The whole city ended up under a boil‑water advisory. Sound …

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