April 16, 2023

New blog post: Efficiency trades off against resiliency

It's been a while! Updating the newsletter because I've published a new blog post, exploring the phenomenon that making a system more efficient often makes it less resilient, and vice versa, with a bunch of specific examples from software engineering.

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/efficiency-vs-resiliency/

The part where I share a photo of Ranger

Here's that happy floof staring at a tree that blocked the path in our neighborhood park after one of the huge wind storms earlier this year. He's mostly excited about all the new sticks it created.

- Nelson