I mostly stay out of the “Platform Engineering” hype cycle discourse. But the frame in which it’s being used at my company is so far beyond anywhere I’ve been before, and let me tell you it’s fucking awesome. Seeing how far we’ve come in a year 🤯🤯

Sounds like Twitter’s going to provide us with an object lesson in Rasmussen’s safety model. If you’re cutting costs and people are burning out, the system gets pushed towards the safety boundary. Outages coming?

Wooo, the CFP for the first Learning from Incidents in Software (Learning from Incidents) conference is now up! web.cvent.com/event/e3af0a43…

Hey, tap-tap🎙️...we're back. Well, we never left, but we've been busy outside of Twitter (how's Twitter going these days?) We have our first ever conference coming up this February. Are you doing interesting things with incidents? We want to hear from you register.learningfromincidents.io

I had the pleasure of working with Joshua Zimmerman for several years. I don’t think I’ve ever worked with someone as thoughtful and empathetic about building humane and effective systems as Josh. Hire him as fast as you can!

Tell me you don’t have enough operations experience without telling me.

Maybe Elno should consult with Taleb. I bet he could help him with this mess. 😎😎

I would argue failed chaos experiments have been the norm in organizations for decades otherwise taylorism would have died years ago.

Ok I've settled on a mastodon account/server you can find me at hachyderm.io/@andyfleener

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Suspending my twitter break just to announce a new blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/12/28/sou…

I think it's finally time to start telling the story. If anyone wants to chat about Internal Developer Platforms, like really, the good, the bad, and the silly hmu. I think I'm ready to go past shitposting about it..well...maybe.

If you aren't talking to people, you've failed.

Missing my friend today. I read my grief stricken stream of consciousness that's on the next page in my notebook and that brought back A LOT of feelings. But I also caused some good trouble today in a meeting like he would, and that felt good.