{"id":250,"date":"2003-11-09T07:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/09\/systems-can-fail\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:10:58","slug":"systems-can-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/09\/systems-can-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems can fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a185'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindview.net\/\">Bruce Eckel<\/a> has a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/mindview.net\/WebLog\/log-0043\">weblog entry<\/a> mixing in a personal experiences of dealing with failure in systems that people just assume &#8216;work&#8217;.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCrested Buttians, perhaps because they are (also) primarily from somewhere else, assume that the systems will continue to work as they always have. You have to be in a situation where you see just how fast things fail to make you take it seriously, I guess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of stories in technology of failed projects (software, IT, hardware, you name it) and it&#8217;s good to remember that technology has progressed however stuff can fail and it&#8217;s good to sometimes try to keep in mind that this stuff fails.   If you&#8217;re not prepared it can really catch you flat-footed.   It catches all of us since once you lay down something that is &#8216;infrastructure&#8217; it&#8217;s job is to serve to do something else and once it works for awhile people just forget about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Eckel has a wonderful weblog entry mixing in a personal experiences of dealing with failure in systems that people just assume &#8216;work&#8217;. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Crested Buttians, perhaps because they are (also) primarily from somewhere else, assume that the systems will continue to work as they always have. You have to be in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}