Principles of Antifragile Software

by Martin Monperrus

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to study and define the concept of "antifragile software". For this, I start from Taleb's statement that antifragile systems love errors, and discuss whether traditional software dependability fits into this class. The answer is somewhat negative, although adaptive fault tolerance is antifragile: the system learns something from errors to errors, and always gets better. Then, I claim that automatic runtime bug fixing (changing the code in response to errors) and fault injection in production (injecting errors in business critical software) correspond to antifragility. Finally, I hypothesize that antifragile development processes are better at producing antifragile software systems.

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Martin Monperrus, "Principles of Antifragile Software", In Proceedings of Salon des Refusés, 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3079368.3079412

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@inproceedings{1404.3056,
 title = {Principles of Antifragile Software},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of Salon des Refus\'es},
 year = {2017},
 doi = {10.1145/3079368.3079412},
 author = {Martin Monperrus},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3056.pdf},
}