Why reliability, invariants, and guardrails matter more as AI accelerates code production. Introduction AI has already changed the rate at which software can be produced. What remains unclear is how much faster software systems can safely change. The ability to produce change is not the same as the ability to absorb its impact. Systems, operational […]
AI Doesn’t Break Software Engineering. It Moves the Constraints. Read More »
Inspired by the 2021 Meta outage – The day communication itself became the incident It started like any other morning at the city’s emergency coordination center. Calls came in, dispatchers relayed instructions, and fire, ambulance, and police units fanned out across the grid. Then, almost imperceptibly, something shifted. A few responders began reporting silence on
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Inspired by the 2024 CrowdStrike Channel File 291 incident – Imagine a precision-parts factory, where every process is automated. Each morning, headquarters sends a digital blueprint describing exactly how the assembly line should build the next batch of parts — where to place each bolt, how many positions to fill, and in what sequence. Normally,
Ep.02 – A stalled assembly line Read More »
Inspired by 3 related and unrelated Anthropic incidents in 2026 – Imagine you manage a large apartment building. Dozens of floors, hundreds of tenants, and a maze of shared infrastructure behind every wall. Your goal: keep life smooth. Hot showers run, faucets flow, and everyone trusts the water will be there when they turn the
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Inspired by the Oct 2026 Azure service disruption – Imagine you manage a large hotel. Your main revolving doors — the high-traffic entryways that connect guests to everything inside — are like the Azure Front Door technology service in cloud terms. Through them, guests reach check-in desks, concierge, key access, dining reservations, spa bookings —
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Inspired by the October 2026 AWS us-east-1 outage – Imagine a large hospital that updates its emergency contact list every hour. Suddenly, nobody can call the ER, security, or pharmacy — the whole hospital’s coordination grinds to a halt until someone manually restores the contact list. That’s essentially what happened inside AWS’s DNS automation: a
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If you’re building or marketing tools for reliability, you need a way to frame them that earns trust and lands with practitioners. That’s what the SABRO Framework™ provides — a set of five principles to guide naming and framing responsibly.
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