&gt; I wrote a very tiny booklet about writing highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed system.<p>i am sure you already know about jim-gray&#x27;s (tandem computers) article on &quot;Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?&quot;. it is pretty good, imho, actually, despite being approx. 20 years old (how many millenia is that in internet time ?)