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Perpetual cynic and hopeless optimist. SRE. Resilience in Software Foundation. Journalism, security and privacy. Equality for all. (he/him)

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Call for participation for @SREcon 25 Americas is now out! usenix.org/conference/srecon… Joint Cognitive Systems is even mentioned in the call! How cool is that?

SREcon25 Americas Call for Participation

SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to...

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In remembrance of the late @ri_cook (August 31, 2022). adaptivecapacitylabs.com/202…
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TigerBeetle
@TigerBeetleDB27 Aug 2024
It's happening. Join us for the live premiere of Kyle Kingsbury's talk from #SD24 (“Jepsen 15: What Even are Transactions?”). Wednesday, August 28 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET youtube.com/watch?v=ecZp6cWh…

Jepsen 15: What Even Are Transactions? by Kyle Kingsbury

Databases often promise "ACID transactions", but what does that phr...

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While this week's storm was the largest in two decades, there have been much stronger storms. The Disturbance storm time (Dst) index May 2024: -412 nT Nov 2003: -422 nT Mar 1989: −589 nT May 1921 (estimated): -800 to -1000 nT Sep 1859 Carrington event (est.): -850 to -1750 nT
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Casey Rosenthal@caseyrosenthal9 Jan 2024
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/regi… #ChaosEngineering
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Neil Spenceley@neilspenceley3 Jan 2024
Learning from what goes well: ⁦@HorsleyCarl⁩ ⁦@picudoc13⁩ ⁦@LfEcommunity⁩ ⁦@Kevin_Fong⁩ Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67…

Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno

Leaving valuables behind was a "major factor" behind the evacuation of 379 people as fire engulfed the plane.

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Jeli.io
@jeli_io2 Nov 2023
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/connecting-the-…
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SREcon@SREcon31 Oct 2023
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
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USENIX Association@usenix29 Jul 2023
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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).
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Chad Todd@ctoddkicker116 Jun 2023
A fabulous paper about the pioneer @ri_cook. researchgate.net/publication…

(PDF) A celebration of the work of Richard Cook, MD: A pioneer in understanding accidents, safety,...

PDF | Dr. Richard Cook was a physician, educator, scholar, and researcher. He was a brilliant thinker and writer. Richard's CV lists 41 peer reviewed... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

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Vanessa Huerta Granda@v_hue_g15 Jun 2023
If you’re doing action items, focus on the quality over the quantity!
Michelle Brush@michellebrush15 Jun 2023
Postmortems shouldn't be action item factories. If the fixes never get done, folks lose trust in the process. - @v_hue_g at #QConNY
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Matt Kuritz@_kuritz15 Jun 2023
First up on the resilience track is our host @v_hue_g qconnewyork.com/presentation…

QCon New York 2023 | Two Years of Incidents at 6 Different Companies: How a Culture of Resilience...

Uncover emerging software trends and practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches.

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Marco Altamirano@marcosien5 Jun 2023
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 @NautilusMag
Nautilus Magazine@NautilusMag4 Jun 2023
Drunk as a skunk. And a bird. And a monkey. And a deer. And an elephant. The list goes on and on when it comes to animals hitting the bottle.   But are these animals really getting wasted, and why? nautil.us/do-animals-get-dru…

The Truth About Which Animals Get Drunk Is More Complicated Than You Think

Why evolving a taste for getting tipsy could prove adaptive.

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The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Four Concepts of Resilience. Rebound Robustness Graceful Extensibility Sustained Adaptability researchgate.net/publication…

(PDF) Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering

PDF | On Apr 1, 2015, David D. Woods published Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Research...

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The VOID@VoidIncidents27 Apr 2023
VOID Podcast Ep. 6 with @lauralifts 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/17… #incidents
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gaut
@0xgaut16 Apr 2023
tech companies solving problems that don’t exist
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New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/…

Missing the forest for the trees: the component substitution fallacy

Here’s a brief excerpt from a talk by David Woods on what he calls the component substitution fallacy (emphasis mine): Everybody is continuing to commit the component substitution fallacy. No…

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Since 1991, cancer deaths have decreased by 33%—amounting to nearly 4 million cancer deaths averted. But the news won't tell you that ;)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The news does indeed tell you that. A selection of the reporting on this particular statistic from many major news outlets in the last few months: - cnn.com/2023/01/12/hea… - pbs.org/newshour/show/… - abcnews.go.com/Health/cancer-… - washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/… - cbsnews.com/newyork/news/c… - wsj.com/articles/u-s-c… - usatoday.com/story/news/hea… - theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j… - usnews.com/news/health-ne… - thehill.com/policy/healthc… - fortune.com/well/2023/01/3… - newsnationnow.com/health/cancer-… finance.yahoo.com/news/cancer-de… - nypost.com/2023/01/12/1-9…
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Thesis for your weekend! In 2022 Chad Todd contributed to Safety Science with a thesis titled "Handover Communications in Software Operations - A Qualitative Study" lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers…
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