Everything above was known before it was needed. That is the uncomfortable shape of this whole site.

A claim that cannot be wrong is not a claim.

Popper's test is the one to apply to your own architecture review. "This design is resilient" survives any evidence and therefore says nothing. "This survives the loss of any one availability zone" can be run, and can fail. falsifiability

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Newton to Hooke, February 1675. The line is usually read as modesty. Read against the record below it is closer to an instruction: the standard you need has almost certainly been published already, and not reading it is a choice. the letter

Newton also lost around £20,000 in the South Sea Bubble.

He sold at a profit, watched the price keep climbing, and bought back near the peak. The smartest man alive, undone by the third item in the phrase below. He is said to have remarked that he could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies but not the madness of people — except the evidence for that line is thin and secondhand, traced to his niece, and a site about rigour should say so rather than enjoy the quote. the South Sea Company