Web Scale Architecture Study Group: How Complex Systems Fail

“How Complex Systems Fail”. Worth a whole session by itself

http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf

Comments from a DevOps? perspective:

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2009/11/12/how-complex-systems-fail-a-webops-perspective/

A pretty good list of things to think about around complex systems:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/31/designing-for-resiliency-will-be-so-2013.html

And just something to smile about:

http://www.eclectipundit.com/2013/02/blog-post_6.html