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Failure Patterns

When process is not the answer,
patterns of breakdown remain.

This site documents how software systems
repeatedly break under uncertainty
— and why those situations persist.

I. What Breaks

Data Integrity

State Transitions

Time Ordering

Boundary Interfaces

Responsibility Decision Rights

Ops Deployment

II. Why It Breaks

These breakdowns persist not because of mistakes, but because certain dynamics remain unresolved.

III. Failure Patterns - Named Situations

Core Patterns

Derived Patterns

IV. Restoring Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Perspective

This site is not a tutorial.

It does not precsribe solutions.

It provides names and structures
for situations teams repeatedly face.

→ Read the Perspective