How the Crowdstrike IT system outage happened, what we can learn from it, and what can be done to avoid it happening again.

Firstly, 100 percent of failures are random. It’s just that there are lots of textbooks and experts telling us otherwise.

Reliability happens when everyone takes it seriously. And that starts with you, the customer. Contracts are documents – nothing more.

The reliability of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) systems, is a funny thing. Why would anyone buy something designed for someone else?

Reliability engineering has an image problem: seen as an imbugerance that destroys budget, schedule and fun. Is that a fair assumption?

One of the enduring mysteries of reliability engineering is that there is no straight forward definition of who a reliability engineer is.

In its simplest form, artificial intelligence is about trying to program a computer to mimic how humans learn. So what's the problem?

You can't motivate people to do reliability engineering that benefits 'other people' a long time from now. But you don't have to!

We often get sucked into drawn-out conversations (or heated debates) about the ‘true’ meaning of words. Especially when it comes to...

Leaders are often looking for quick fixes - and this extends to 'banning' certain words. But this changes nothing if nothing else changes.

Fourteen people died on the 23rd of May 2021 when a cable car in Italy crashed to the ground. Describing this as an accident is too kind...

Let’s say that someone has decided they want to get better at something. Perhaps they want to lose weight. Perhaps they want to learn a...