The original title is: "Failure Engineering Explained by Uncle to Nephew — Episode 2: Types of Failures"

Short summary

An engaging dialogue-format article that categorizes seven types of system failures: hardware, software, network, database, third-party, human error, and resource exhaustion. Uses an uncle-nephew conversation to trace how cloud infrastructure still sits on physical hardware that can fail, and illustrates how same-category failures (null crash vs memory leak) can have vastly different severity levels.

• •Seven failure categories: hardware, software, network, database, third-party, human error, resource exhaustion
• •Cloud doesn't eliminate hardware failure — it just adds abstraction layers
• •Same failure category can have wildly different severity and fix priority

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