Government
5 patterns in this domain
“When delivery fails, don't just drop it”
3/7 frontierDead Letter Handling
In 1825, the United States Post Office established the Dead Letter Office in Washington, D.C.
error-handlingresilienceobservabilityrecovery
7 domains“Do it again, same result”
3/7 frontierIdempotency
Mathematicians named the concept first.
reliabilitydistributed-systemssafetydeduplication
7 domains“Change the rules without stopping the game”
3/7 frontierSchema Migration
The problem crystallized in the 1990s when web applications started storing data in relational databases.
evolutionversioningbackward-compatibilitychange-management
7 domains“Sleep now, bloom when the time is right”
3/7 frontierStrategic Dormancy
Deep in an Arctic mountain on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, the Global Seed Vault holds over 1.1 million seed samples from nearly every country on Earth.
resilienceoptionalityuncertaintypreservation
7 domains“Let the inspector inside — both of you benefit”
3/7 frontierTrusted Privileged Access
On coral reefs around the world, cleaner wrasse fish establish "cleaning stations" — specific spots on the reef where larger fish, including predators that could easily eat them, come to be cleaned.
trustsecuritymutualismauditing
7 domains