Resilience Bites

What 1,000 Executives Know But Can't Fix

I have no idea how I missed this report when it came out.

Mar 31 • Adrian Hornsby

When Architecture Becomes Fluid

A few days ago, AWS announced that the AWS Serverless Agent Plugin is now in the Anthropic plugins marketplace.

Mar 26 • Adrian Hornsby

We Mistake "Hasn't Failed Yet" for "Won't Fail"

May 17, 2010

Mar 7 • Adrian Hornsby

AI doesn't solve your problems. It moves them somewhere you can't see yet.

Estimated read time: 9 minutes

Mar 2 • Adrian Hornsby

February 2026

Why We Still Suck at Resilience and Why I Wrote a Book About It

The last few months have been pretty quiet in here, and the reason is the same reason this piece exists.

Feb 18 • Adrian Hornsby

The Prevention Paradox at Civilizational Scale

“La flamme de la résistance française ne doit pas s’éteindre et ne s’éteindra pas” - Charles de Gaulle, appel du 18 juin 1940

Feb 17 • Adrian Hornsby

January 2026

Why Your Chaos Experiments Give You False Confidence

You've done everything right.

Jan 9 • Adrian Hornsby

December 2025

November 2025

October 2025

When AI Writes Your Code, Chaos Engineering Writes Your Insurance Policy

AI-generated code has moved from curiosity to almost standard practice with breathtaking speed.

Oct 2, 2025 • Adrian Hornsby

August 2025

Controls vs Guardrails: Why Organizations Struggle with Resilience Despite Having All the Right Pieces

After a decade of helping organizations improve their resilience practices, I keep seeing the same puzzle.

Aug 14, 2025 • Adrian Hornsby

July 2025

Why MTTR is a Misleading Metric (And What to Track Instead)

Many engineering teams have that dashboard, the one they've been staring at for months, watching MTTR stubbornly refuse to budge despite all their hard…

Jul 12, 2025 • Adrian Hornsby