Short analytical pieces on the mechanics of failure in distributed systems: what the received wisdom gets wrong, and the conditions under which it stops being true.

Failure Modes are written from published postmortems, incident write-ups and engineering documentation, which are listed at the foot of every piece. Nothing in this section has been run, measured or operated here — where a number, a threshold or a result appears, it belongs to the source it is credited to.

Nothing here yet — the first one lands shortly. In the meantime, the hand-written pieces are in Field Notes.