The Antifragile Organization: Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 40-44

  Tseitlin, Ariel ^a  

^a Netflix ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; COMMODITY HARDWARE; DATA CENTERS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS; UNIFORM FREQUENCY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84881492463     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2492007.2492022     Document Type: Article

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