Self-Healing Topologies

Cut a mycelium and it does not report an outage. It reroutes, seals the wound, and keeps moving sugar around the damage.

Self-healing isn't a feature bolted onto the network. It's a property of having many equivalent paths and no indispensable one. Resilience is redundancy that got a better name.

Failure domains inherit

When you design a topology, you're also designing what a failure takes down with it. Cluster your critical paths and one severed thread kills a limb; spread them and the same cut is barely felt.

The forest solved blast-radius before we had the word for it.