Berkeley researcher: Accept system failure, focus on recovery

Opinion
Jun 8, 20061 min

Berkeley researcher Armando Fox says that if you can’t build bulletproof systems, you should at least make sure they can be recovered quickly. The philosophy of the [Recovery-Oriented Computing] Project was stuff happens. Despite our best efforts to design and debug these complicated Internet systems, they inevitably end up failing in ways we didn’t expect.”

Read our interview with him here.

Bob Brown, bbrown@nww.com