Computer Science / Unit 6 CS 0319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Reliability
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The idea
Reliability is a system's ability to reduce faults and ensure its information survives OS crashes and hardware failures — a property designed in, not hoped for.
In practice
A dispatch log reading clean after a mid-write power cut was built by someone planning for the cut.
Where people slip
Survival of data is an engineering claim requiring receipts.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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