Architecture, Data and Intelligence

In this post, I want to explore some important synergies between architectural thinking and risk management.  The first point is that if we ...

@ Greg_Travis has written an article on the Boeing 737 Max Disaster, which @ jjn1 describes as "one of the best pieces of technical w...

A commonly accepted principle of architecture and engineering is to avoid a single point of failure (SPOF). A single depot for a chain of ov...

Last week was not a good one for the platform business. Uber continues to receive bad publicity on multiple fronts, as noted in my post on U...

Large business-critical systems can be brought down by power failure. My previous post looked at Airlines. This time we turn our attention t...

Large business-critical systems can be brought down by power failure. Who knew? In July 2016, Southwest Airlines suffered a major disrupti...

People are slowly waking up to the fact that we have created yet another single point of failure into our business ecosystem. It seems that ...

In May 2010, there was a mysterious plunge in US share prices. At the time an SEC investigation found that no single cause was to blame [ BB...