The modern tech revolution is just three ultraviolet lithography machines in a trench coat.

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Join me on Thursday, January 25 for a webinar on Chaos Engineering. Covering: fundamentals of Chaos Engineering, strategies for successful implementation, how to navigate common adoption challenges, and measuring success. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Learning from what goes well:
⁦Carl Horsley⁩ ⁦matt scanlon⁩ ⁦Learning from Excellence⁩ ⁦Dr Kevin Fong⁩

Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

We're excited to announce Jeli has been acquired by PagerDuty 📟❤️

Jeli is made up of folks who have been carrying pagers our entire careers. Joining forces w/ PagerDuty gives users an all-in-one #incidentmanagement solution - from response to analysis.

jeli.io/blog/connectin…

Today is the day! Talk proposals for SREcon24 Americas are due today, Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT. View the CFP and send in your submission now: bit.ly/sre24amscfp #srecon

DORA State of DevOps Report is deprecating MTTR 🎉 🎊

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I’ve been thinking about climate change and the similarities to safety disasters.

This quote from David Woods about the Columbia disaster seems very relevant:

“the future is implausible, the past incredible”.

We fail to act as future scenarios seem unlikely and unbelievable…

The fact that the CEO of OceanGate was in the submarine is a reminder that we can’t tell when someone deliberately takes an excessive risk (the stereotypical sloppy engineer or greedy exec) versus someone whose risk estimate is poorly calibrated (underestimating the risk).

A fabulous paper about the pioneer Richard I. Cook.

researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you’re doing action items, focus on the quality over the quantity!

First up on the resilience track is our host Vanessa Huerta Granda

qconnewyork.com/presentation/j…

Did you know that, taking into account relative weight, a gerbil could outdrink several elephants? My latest on the boozie-suzies of the animal kingdom for Nautilus Magazine

The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Four Concepts of Resilience.

Rebound
Robustness
Graceful Extensibility
Sustained Adaptability

researchgate.net/publication/27…

AI is not going to exponentially self-improve and destroy the world. ChatGPT is pure mimicry powered by scores of wage-based workers helping refine and tune the language model, “We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it” nbcnews.com/tech/innovatio…

Congress is trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption again and it's time to take action. Tell your rep. to vote against the STOP CSAM Act.

act.eff.org/action/tell-co…

VOID Podcast Ep. 6 with Laura Nolan is a must-listen! Laura discusses everything from incidents where control plane was a factor to ways to better factor in human-computer collaboration to help make incidents easier to handle.
Listen in at podcast.thevoid.community/1793843/126835…
#incidents

tech companies solving problems that don’t exist

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/04/15/mis…