Virtual care went from nice to have to must have during the COVID-19 pandemic and while in-person visits are starting to pick up again, telemedicine is here to stay. Its growth will continue: health-tech companies are predicting the telemedicine market will be $143.49 billion by 2025 (it will be $167.74 billion in 2025 and $584.99 […]
Designing for Failure: 4 Resilience Practices That Make Outages Boring
Last winter, my city Richmond VA suffered water distribution outages for days after a blizzard. Not because of one big failure, but because backup pumps failed, sensors misread, alerts got buried, and then another pump died during recovery. The whole city ended up under a boil‑water advisory. Sound familiar? Replace “water pumps” with “microservices” and […]
The Breakneck Future of Codegen: Why AI SWE Must Be Matched with AI SRE
AI codegen is transforming software development — but as speed and complexity increase, so does fragility. AI for site reliability will need to keep pace to avoid system breakdown and engineer burnout.
What Is Resilience Engineering?
Admitting things will go wrong isn’t easy for anyone or any team. But modern engineering practices have moved beyond this fear, giving birth to a new practice in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) known as resilience engineering. Resilience engineering today isn’t thought of as a function. However, just as DevOps was a description of […]