For Good Measure: Stress Analysis

In retrospect, the financial collapse of 2008 had useful side effects. We in distributed computing can be rightly thankful that it was the financial services world that shouldered the task of proving that (we) humans are in fact entirely capable of building systems that (we) humans cannot then understand well enough to stably operate. I say thankful as (1) it wasn’t us, and (2) money lost can be replaced with money printed, but not everything is so fungible.