Too Big NOT to Fail: Embrace failure so it doesn’t embrace you.

Abstract

Web-scale infrastructure implies LOTS of servers working together, often tens or hundreds of thousands of servers all working toward the same goal. How can the complexity of these environments be managed? How can commonality and simplicity be introduced?

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