The Digital Operational Resilience Act mandates that financial institutions build resilient systems. It specifies incident reporting, testing requirements, and third-party risk management frameworks.
What it doesn’t specify is how to actually build systems that gracefully degrade under load, recover from cascading failures, or operate in degraded states.
Compliance frameworks measure artifacts, not resilience. You can pass every DORA requirement and still have a system that collapses when a database connection pool is exhausted.