Enterprise Technology

Everyone in the IT business - and particularly developers - are familiar with testing. Testing is the mechanism by which organizations perform quality assurance. The good news is that testing is so engrained in software development organizations that some level of testing is performed in almost every organization. The bad news is that software testing is really just one aspect of testing the entire solution; the things you’re not testing when you do software QA can just as easily sink the ship. There are two other important aspects which are critical to testing to ensure a solution is resilient.

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One of the subjects that I deal with frequently is resiliency; specifically, the resiliency of technology solutions.  But what does it mean to be resilient?  Fundamentally, it means that a system or solution needs to be engineered with these goals in mind:

The entire solution is designed to continue to function as normally as possible in [...]

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