16 domains · 147 incidents
Domains
Failure taxonomies map cleanly across industries once you look past surface vocabulary. Each domain hub is a curated reading order, not just a filtered list.
Cloud & infrastructure
Hyperscale outages, CDN cascades, control-plane failures, DNS and BGP events.
AI & ML
Training pipeline failures, model drift, alignment and safety misses, inference outages.
Finance
Trading halts, algorithmic errors, bank runs, settlement failures, model risk.
Aviation
Crashes, near-misses, systemic regulatory and certification failures, automation-human transitions.
Healthcare
Medication errors, device software failures, diagnostic system incidents, institutional breakdowns.
Energy & grid
Blackouts, nuclear and fossil plant events, renewable integration failures, market-coupling cascades.
Maritime
Groundings, collisions, capsizes, port logistics failures, navigation and sensor incidents.
Rail & transit
Derailments, signalling failures, ATC system issues, high-speed rail and metro incidents.
Automotive
Unintended acceleration, ADAS failures, recall events, connected-vehicle platform outages.
Telecom
Network-wide outages, 911 failures, core routing events, satellite communication incidents.
Space
Launch failures, in-orbit anomalies, ground segment outages, human spaceflight incidents.
Public sector
Unemployment and benefits system failures, election system incidents, public safety comms outages.
Retail & ecommerce
Black Friday outages, inventory sync failures, payment processing incidents.
Media & content
Streaming outages, CDN cascade events, DRM incidents, recommendation system failures.
Manufacturing
Line failures, supply chain events, recall-triggering quality incidents, industrial control outages.
Pharma & biotech
Manufacturing quality incidents, clinical trial events, cold-chain failures.