July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
Antifragility is a technique successfully experimented with at Netflix. It is one of the most powerful approaches to build fail-safe systems in modern software development.
The antifragility concept is introduced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
In the antifragility practice, software systems are consistently challenged. Software systems evolve through these challenges, and, over a period of time, get better and better to withstand these challenges. Amazon's Game Day exercise and Netflix's Simian Army are good examples of such antifragility experiments.
Fail Fast is another concept used to build fault-tolerant, resilient systems. This philosophy ...
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