Added section on fault tolerance (Niklas & Jonatan)

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handling increasing load, e.g more users, gracefully.
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Fault tolerance is used to raise the level of
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dependability
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in a system, so that the dependability is high even in presence of errors.
Dependability is defined as the statistical probability of the system functioni
ng as intended at a given point in time.
Fault tolerance is defined as the property of a system to always follow
a specification, even in the presence of errors.
The specification could take the form of error handling procedures which
activate when an error occurs.
This means that a fault tolerant, dependable system, will have a very high
probability of functioning at a given point in time, and is exactly what
is desired.
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