Notes on Reliability
How systems fail, how to see it early and what a good failure looks like.
A 401 and a blurry receipt
A pipeline that never throws can hide an outage inside the review queue. Keep the never-throw design and make every failure carry its reason.
- AI in production
- Reliability
- Human in the loop
- Reliability, Human in the loop
The dumbest check I trust most
One wrong fact in an AI draft and I throw the whole draft away. Retrying until it passes ships wrong numbers that look right.
- AI in production
- Human in the loop
- Reliability
- Human in the loop, Reliability
The navigation that never lands
A lost Suspense ping can leave a click pending forever. How to tell if you are hit, how to patch it and when to retire the patch.
- Reliability
- Architecture
- Architecture
What happens when this fails?
The question I ask of every system before it goes live. Break an invoice run four ways and watch what a good answer does.
- Workflows
- Reliability
- Architecture
- Reliability, Architecture