[morgante]

> This kind of application should be designed to run in a highly linear, predictable fashion on robust, fault-tolerant hardware.

No, that's a recipe for failure. Hardware will fail. Period.

Hoping that nothing will fail and therefore not taking steps to mitigate it is akin to designing cars not to crash. [0]

Failures need to be explicitly designed for and tested. It's truly depressing that companies where failure is fine (ex. Netflix's Chaos Monkey) understand this, while companies where failure is deadly don't.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652940