Fork, Don't Fail: What Engineering Can Learn From Blockchain Resilience

Not everything needs a blockchain. But everything, at some point, will fail.

And when it does in the dark, during load-shedding, after a corrupted update or a dropped signal the system you built will either halt, or it will do something smarter: it will split, adapt, keep going.

Thats the lesson engineers are drawing not from cryptocurrency, but from how decentralised systems survive disagreement . Blockchain networks dont avoid failure. They plan for divergence . They fork.

And maybe, so should we.

When Bitcoin forks, it doesnt mean someone pulled the plug. It means parts of the network disagree temporarily on what the next block should be. So they both keep going until consensus is restored.