#complex-systems

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fromDevOps.com
3 weeks ago

From Incidents to Insights: The Power of Blameless Postmortems - DevOps.com

In complex systems, failure isn't a possibility - it's a certainty. Whether it's transactions vanishing downstream, a binary storage outage grinding builds to a halt, or a vendor misstep cascading into a platform issue, we have all likely seen firsthand how incidents unfold across a wide range of technical landscapes. Often, the immediate, apparent cause points to an obvious suspect like a surge in user activity or a seemingly overloaded component, only for deeper, blameless analysis to reveal a subtle, underlying systemic flaw that was the true trigger.
DevOps
fromUtoronto
1 month ago

Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/ChecklistsAreHardButGood

Checklists are difficult to create due to the complexity of systems, requiring a complete understanding that can be hard to remember and reconstruct.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

In Jurassic World Rebirth, PTSD Is A Bigger Threat Than Dinosaurs

The film's opening scene features a Snickers wrapper being discarded carelessly, leading to the escape of the mutated Distortus Rex, marking the origin of ensuing horror.
Film
OMG science
fromQuanta Magazine
2 months ago

Does Form Really Shape Function? | Quanta Magazine

L. Mahadevan explores the mathematical principles that connect Möbius strips, brain folds, and termite mounds through form and function.
philosophy
fromAeon
3 months ago

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays

Emergence explains how complex behaviors result from simple local interactions among individual entities.
The entangled brain concept emphasizes understanding brain functions as networks of interacting regions, rather than isolated areas.
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