architecture

Vinay Gupta, creator of the hexayurt, writes over at over at one of his sites  a criticism of resilience:

The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » why it’s not resilience.

Presenting this attack on the term resilience  is certainly controversial and ignites a good and much needed debate.  But we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

At FOSDEM I had the chance to sit on on a few somewhat academic discussions about FLOSS quality. It is an interesting issue for us as we have worked over the past three years to work on a type of "assemble" methodology that integrates itself into FLOSS practices, while at the same time ensures service level agreements can confidently be met in a more traditional professional services/enterprise context.A couple of thoughts really come to mind.

Let's look at a case study in embracing a new simplicity in design to deal with a complex problem. In this case the complex problem is traffic. It is complex because it involves many variables that are less than predictable. For example, the number of cars, the direction of the cars, the weather, pedestrians, road conditions, visibility, maintenance and state of equipment for management and so on. If we were to design a system whereby we encouraged the collaboration of different drivers to solve the problem of traffic flow we could do it in several ways. Lets study two: