Many of us work on systems that are designed to be quite robust, even highly available--but how can we go beyond that and make them antifragile--that is, how can we get these systems to grow in robustness as they are changed, loaded, and experience failures?  One spoiler, it involves loving errors.

In this episode, Bett and Russ discuss antifragile with Dr. Martin Monperrus of the University of Lille & Inria.  He is preparing to do research in this area and has published a paper on the topic.

We discuss many related questions, and where there are ready answers, we delve into to them--listen to hear about this very intriguing topic.

Listen now: (download)

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A few of the other books we mention:

• Martin's paper: Principles of Antifragile Software
• Prior episode in which Bett and Russ reviewed the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb