A building collapses when one structural failure triggers a domino effect.

Software systems can fail the exact same way - except our dominoes are hidden.

Sam Newman explains why microservices, third-party APIs, and database dependencies create cascading failures that stay invisible until they hit production.

🔗 Watch the full video + transcript 👉 https://www.infoq.com/presentations/progressive-collapse-system-resilience/

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