What happens when it fails?
Most infrastructure conversations focus on how something works. The more useful question is what happens when it doesn't — and whether the architecture's response was designed, or improvised in the moment.
01 Why we lead with failure
A system that has never been asked "what happens when this breaks" usually finds out the answer during an actual incident, at the worst possible time. We design the failure response at the same time as the system itself — not as an afterthought.
02 Select a scenario
Choose a failure mode to see how the response actually runs, stage by stage.
- Failure
- Detection
- Containment
- Recovery
- Evidence
03 How this shows up in our engagements
Every reference architecture in our architecture library includes an explicit failure-scenarios section. It's not an add-on — designing for the failure case is part of the same exercise as designing for the working case.