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Why IT-style rollbacks fail in industrial control systems
In web services, 99.9% uptime means ~8.7 hours of downtime per year, but in industrial OT, a single mid-batch failure can scrap product, damage equipment, or cause safety incidents. Rollbacks are often impossible mid-process because the physical state has changed. Developers must design for graceful degradation and test against physical constraints, not just software ones.
Meridian48 take
This piece rightly highlights a critical blind spot for developers moving from IT to OT: the assumption that software failures are recoverable ignores the irreversible nature of physical processes.
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