Just wrapped some hands-on testing with a decentralized storage protocol's failure recovery capabilities. Most platforms talk a big game about redundancy and backup systems, but rarely prove it under real stress. So I intentionally dropped a node mid-operation to see how the network would respond. The outcome? The protocol didn't just maintain uptime—it executed a structured incident recovery procedure, rebalancing data across remaining nodes without user-facing disruption. That's the kind of robustness you want from Web3 infrastructure. It's the difference between having a backup plan on paper versus one that actually works when things go sideways.