framework / high-availability

High availability

Relationship uptime over the long haul: legacy bugs, load balancing, and blameless post-mortems.

The problem

Even couples without loud conflict wear down: small unspoken things accumulate, old grievances resurface in new fights, load is shared unfairly. Lack of maintenance leads to failure as reliably as a loud crash.

The engineering model

Relationship uptime is the share of time the system works and both feel safe. Legacy bugs are traumas and scripts from families of origin. Load balancing lets partners cover each other. A blameless post-mortem reviews a failure for a lesson, not for blame.

Protocol
  1. Run regular short check-ins as an agreement, not an emergency.
  2. Name legacy bugs: "this is a reaction from my past, not about you."
  3. Revisit load distribution: who is overloaded and what can be rebalanced.
  4. After a fight, do a blameless post-mortem.
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  • Do not treat a crisis as a reason to destroy the server.
  • Do not turn a post-mortem into a tribunal.
  • Do not defer maintenance until failure.

Based on systemic family therapy and Gottman Institute research. Verify against primary sources.