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Doctrine: Patterns for building resilient, federated systems. Use these guides to clarify how you want your system to behave, how you want decisions to be made, and what “good” looks like when the pressure is on.
Staging areas are where you execute, not where you invent trust. When partners first meet in the parking lot of a disaster, they bring trucks, supplies, clipboards and logos. What they usually do not bring is a shared playbook. The pattern is simple: What happened at a small church in Bay St Louis during Hurricane…
In architecture circles, “decouple data from the application” often gets repeated like a spell. Say it enough times and you start to believe that separating data from applications is always good and never painful. In real systems, it is more complicated. Separation can unlock federation, resilience and swappability. It can also introduce new failure modes…
When people talk about “federated systems,” it can sound abstract. In reality, federation is what you reach for when you cannot force anyone to do anything. Before systems like iCAV matured, I saw the cost of non-federation up close (or rather, an integrated system trying to operate in a federated environment). During Hurricane Katrina, data…
On paper, compliance sounds like a strength. The system is compliant. The team is compliant. Audits are passed. Boxes are checked. In practice, compliance is table stakes. It keeps you out of trouble. It does not get hard things done. The teams that actually deliver are committed. They understand the mission, believe in the intent…
So far we have talked about federation as a positive pattern. Respect sovereignty. Allow variety. Federate data instead of forcing everyone into one box. There is a darker version. That is federation without clear ownership and without clear standards. It is slow failure. You can see hints of it anywhere multiple systems are stitched together…
Most organizations talk about roles as if they were job titles. You are a project manager. You are an analyst. You are a specialist. On paper, that sounds clear. In reality, those titles describe a person far more than they describe a protocol. Wildland fire does it differently. Inside the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
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