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Fail at Scale.

The article discusses failure in computer system engineering and examines Internet services company Facebook's approach to failure. Noted causes of failures include individual machine failures, workload changes, and human error. The author goes on to comment on the importance of learning from failur...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 11; pp. 44 - 50
Main Author: MAURER, BEN
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2015
Subjects:
Computer system design & construction
Computer system failure prevention
Meta Platforms Inc.
Human error
Employees' workload
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses failure in computer system engineering and examines Internet services company Facebook's approach to failure. Noted causes of failures include individual machine failures, workload changes, and human error. The author goes on to comment on the importance of learning from failure.