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Traditional versus resilience engineering views
- 期号: SRE Weekly Issue #529（2026-08-10）
- 作者: Lorin Hochstein
- 链接: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/02/traditional-versus-resilience-engineering-views/
简介
I thought it would be a useful exercise to brainstorm some of the differences in focus between what I’ll call the traditional view of reliability, and the resilience engineering view.
It’s short (just a table), but it definitely made me think.
正文
As a fan of resilience engineering, I often differ with people on where we should focus our scarce engineering cycles in order to improve reliability.
I thought it would be a useful exercise to brainstorm some of the differences in focus between what I’ll call the traditional view of reliability, and the resilience engineering view.
| Traditional view focuses on | Resilience engineering view focuses on | | accountability | coordination | | prioritization | goal conflicts | | risk mitigation | risk trade-offs | | better processes and conformance thereof | more expertise | | quantitative | qualitative | | root cause | interaction of multiple factors | | action items | insight | | preventing future incidents, ensuring all incidents are novel | better handling of novel incidents | | reducing complexity | navigating complexity | | objectives | production pressure | | robustness | resilience | | human variability as liability | human variability as asset | | building accurate system model | repairing inevitable model errors | | rigor | improvisation | | explicit knowledge | tacit knowledge | | automation, benefits of | automation, risks introduced by |