Resilience must be built into products from the start, ensuring they withstand failures like outages or network loss, rather than being treated as an afterthought.
Resilience is not a department. It’s not a project. It’s not an afterthought.
It is a product capability.
If your product can’t survive failure—network loss, regional outage, DNS breakage—it is not a product. It is a liability with a pretty UI.
Too many teams optimise for performance, cost, or velocity—until something goes wrong. Then they realise they optimised for fragility. Spain’s blackout. Oracle’s healthcare cloud crash. Every one of these was built to succeed in PowerPoint, not in the real world.
If your disaster recovery plan has never been tested under load, with real users and real failover, then you don’t have a plan. You have a spreadsheet fantasy.
The next outage won’t care how good your uptime graph looked last quarter.
If you've made it this far, it's worth connecting with our principal consultant and coach, Martin Hinshelwood, for a 30-minute 'ask me anything' call.
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.
NIT A/S
Schlumberger
Kongsberg Maritime
Philips
Teleplan
Capita Secure Information Solutions Ltd
DFDS
Emerson Process Management
Illumina
Genus Breeding Ltd
Deliotte
Epic Games
Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)
YearUp.org
Lockheed Martin
Xceptor - Process and Data Automation
Alignment Healthcare
Ericson
Royal Air Force
Ghana Police Service
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Nottingham County Council
Washington Department of Enterprise Services
Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
Boxit Document Solutions
Lean SA
Slaughter and May
CR2
Deliotte
Epic Games
