failoverista
Failoverista is a term that emerged within certain technical communities to describe a person or an automated system exhibiting excessive or perhaps even pathological reliance on failover mechanisms. In essence, a failoverista is someone or something that anticipates and prepares for failure to such an extreme degree that it can become counterproductive. This can manifest in various ways, from over-engineering systems with redundant components for every conceivable point of failure to an individual who constantly doubts the stability of a system and is always looking for potential issues to mitigate.
The concept of failover itself is crucial in modern computing and infrastructure management. It refers to the
While the term is informal and often used humorously, it touches upon important considerations in system design