Nature inspired algorithms - spider webs

Spider webs are very resilient:

A web can lose entire sections and still be functional.

Damages are contained in local area

Stress is uniformly distributed across the structure, maintains stability

Web has redundant radial and spiral connections, if one breaks load is routed elsewhere

Network Design:

Like multiple strands in a web, networks use multiple routes between nodes.

Localizing failure, Microservices architectures isolate failures so one service crashing doesn’t collapse everything.

Load balancing spreads traffic so no single server or path is overwhelmed.

Dynamic rerouting protocols e.g. OSPF, BGP has self-heal