Lungs are example of redundancy in nature

Beyond DRY – Why Redundancy Makes Your Code More Robust and Less Fragile

Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a goldmine of practical ideas for software developers, despite it not being a software development book. Redundancy is one example of such an idea that is explored. Taleb explains how having some redundancy reduces fragility, and means we don’t need to predict the future so well. Think of food …

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