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Slight ReliabilityLearning with John Allspaw (Episode 100)Send us a textThis week on the 100th episode I'm joined by DevOps and Resilience Engineering legend John Allspaw to talk about learning (especially from incidents). We discuss...đ Classroom VS situated learningđ€ The myth of the perfect handover ITIL as a coping strategy to try and make sense of the organic, wild, and messyđ„ How you cannot incentivise to avoid incidents (it doesn't work that way)â€ïžâđ©č You can't understand how something is broken unless you know how it's supposed to work in the first place...and much more.Resources fro...2025-06-2448 min
This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and softwareResilience, Complexity, and Your Boss a collab w/Punk Rock SafetyBen (Goodheart), Dave (Provan) and Ron (Gantt) have the very awesome podcast Punk Rock Safety (punkrocksafety.com) - you can get your own punk rock safety merch at punkrocksafetymerch.comCharles Perrow wrote Normal Accidents and talks about safety and power in his essay (book, really), Complex Organizations.Drew Rae lit the stage on fire about safety work as soothing rather than actually improving safety: EHS Congress Berlin 2024 - Day2Dr. Richard Cookâs concepts of âAbove the Line/Below the Lineâ got a shout out - hereâs...2025-04-0955 min
The VOIDEpisode 7: When Uptime Met DowntimeWe took a bit of a hiatus from recording last year, but we're back with an episode that I think everyone is really going to enjoy. Late last year, John Allspaw told me about this new company called Uptime Labs. They simulate software incidents, giving people a safe and constructive environment in which to experience incidents, practice what response is like, and bring what they learn back to their own organizations.For the record, this is not a sponsored podcast. I legitimately just love what they do. And I had the sincere privilege to meet Uptime's cofounder...2025-01-3051 min
The Praxi PodPatrick Debois, Navigating the evolving intersection of human intelligence, automation, and AI Native DevelopmentIn this episode of the Praxi Pod, host Andrew Turner speaks with Patrick Dubois about the evolving landscape of AI and technology. They discuss the hype surrounding generative AI, the importance of understanding its practical applications, and the need for organizations to adapt to new technologies. Patrick shares his journey through various roles in tech, emphasizing the significance of continuous learning and the intersection of AI with software engineering. The conversation also touches on the organizational structures needed to support AI initiatives and the implications for business operations. In this conversation, Andrew and Patrick delve into the evolving landscape...2024-12-181h 05
Google SRE ProdcastHuman Factors in Complex Systems with Casey Rosenthal and John AllspawThis episode features Casey Rosenthal (Founder, Cirrusly.ai) and John Allspaw (Founder and Principal, Adaptive Capacity Labs), joining our hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg. Together they discuss how resilience appears in Software Engineering and SRE and explore the importance of understanding the human factors involved in adapting to system failuresâhighlighting the need for a more qualitative and holistic approach to understanding how engineers successfully adapt to system behavior and improving overall reliability.2024-12-0441 min
Screaming in the CloudReplay - Finding a Common Language for Incidents with John AllspawOn this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, Corey is joined by John Allspaw, Founder/Principal at Adaptive Capacity Labs. John was foundational in the DevOps movement, but heâs continued to bring much more to the table. Heâs written multiple books and seems to always be at the forefront. Which is why he is now at Adaptive Capacity Labs. John tells us what exactly Adaptive Capacity Labs does and how it works and how he convinced some heroes to get behind it. John brings a much-needed insight into how to get multiple people in an organization on the same...2024-11-2629 minThis is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and softwareEpisode 2 - Does Software Need Safety?We talk to the pioneer of resilience engineering in the software world John Allspaw about how he discovered this world, and we answer a reader question together: does software need safety?Correction: we thought this would be episode 3, but it ended up being 2, because of scheduling conflicts with guests...You can submit your questions at www.thisisfinepod.comâ thisisfine.softwarepodcast@gmail.comâ 2024-11-2100 min
Quality BitsDevOps Ideology & Testing in DevOps with Jani HaapalaWhat is DevOps? Is it just continuous releases and speed? How do we test in teams embracing DevOps? Jani Haapala is a DevOps Architect with a Quality Consultant title. In this episode, Lina talks to Jani about that fluffy word of "DevOps", the misconceptions about it, and testing in DevOps. You'll learn more about the concept, get some stories on what good quality there looks like, and gather further resources to deepen your knowledge.Find Jani on:LinkedIn:Â https://www.linkedin.com/in/janihaapala/Mentions and resources:Dan A...2024-01-2334 min
The Engineering Leadership PodcastResilience engineering, learning from incidents and unintuitive perspectives on incident analysis w/ John Allspaw #116We cover resilience engineering & learning from incidents with John Allspaw, former CTO @ Etsy and current Founder & Principal @ Adaptive Capacity Labs! Co-hosted by Kenji Kiuchi (Head of Quality and Performance @ Postman) this episode also addresses common unintuitive perspectives within resilience engineering, strategies for effective incident response / problem solving, how to identify current sources of resilience, and practical tips for implementing these resiliency tactics in your organization today.ABOUT JOHN ALLSPAWJohn Allspaw (@allspaw) has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. Johnâs publications include the books The Ar...2023-02-0742 min
Word NotesEncore: Agile Software Development Method (noun)A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-developmentAudio reference link: "Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe," John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference, YouTube, 25 June 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-01-1707 min
Security Cryptography WhateverSoftware Safety and Twitter with Kevin RiggleWe talk to Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) about complexity and safety. We also talk about the Twitter acquisition. While recording, we discovered a new failure mode where Kevin couldn't hear Thomas, but David and Deirdre could, so there's not much Thomas this episode. If you ever need to get Thomas to voluntarily stop talking, simply mute him to half the audience!https://twitter.com/kevinriggleTranscript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/11/24/software-safety-and-twitter-with-kevin-riggle/ErrataIt was the Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed due to a units mismatchDavid confused the Dreamliner with...2022-11-2458 min
Slight ReliabilitySlight Reliability Episode 18 - Interview with Chris EvansSend us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Chris Evans from incident.io about using incidents to lift the lid on an organisation, how aiming for zero incidents can stall an organisation, how tracking MTTR is unhelpful, and much more.You can find Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evnsio/Here are the resources Chris mentioned...The practical guide to incident management:http://incident.io/guideThe Field Guide to Understanding Human Error (by Sidney Dekker) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view...2022-08-0131 min
Hacking HumansDevOps (noun) [Word Notes]The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems.CyberWire Glossary link:Audio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009.2022-05-2407 minHacking HumansAgile Software Development Method (noun) [Word Notes]A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning Audio reference link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-development"Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe" John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference,YouTube, 25 June 2009. 2022-05-0307 minWord NotesDevOps (noun)The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems.CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/devopsAudio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-05-0307 minWord NotesAgile Software Development Method (noun)A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-developmentAudio reference link: "Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe," John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference, YouTube, 25 June 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-04-1907 min
Naturalistic Decision MakingEpisode #35: Interview with John AllspawDate recorded: November 12, 2021
Show Description:
Today we welcome John Allspaw. John is an engineering leader and  researcher with over 20 years of experience in building and leading  teams engaged in software and systems engineering.
He is a co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, LLC. Previously, he was  Chief Technology Officer at Etsy. He has also worked at Flickr,  Friendster, InfoWorld, Salon, Genentech, Volpe National Transportation  Center, and a bunch of other places as a consultant from time to time.
John has spent the last decade bridging insights from Human Factors, Â Cognitive Systems Engineering, and Re...2021-11-2045 min
StaffEngRich Lafferty (PagerDuty)Oscillating between the roles of individual contributor and management has been a recurring theme on this show. Our guest today, Rich Lafferty, has some special insights into this pattern that can help anyone looking to improve their work. Rich works as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at PagerDuty and has spent many years interfacing with various departments and building projects and proposals. In our conversation with Rich, we discuss how his past roles have informed his work at PagerDuty and how he gets the most out of his teams without exploiting the authority that comes with his more senior...2021-08-2449 min
Future ThinkingEpisode 4: Talking psychological safety with Tom GeraghtyIn this episode we talk to Tom Geraghty, Open Innovation Labs Transformation Lead at Red Hat, about the subject of Psychological Safety and its relationship to innovation (among other things!). It was a truly eye opening talk, with some very relevant and actionable insights from Tom.Here are some of the resources Tom mentioned in the interview:https://psychsafety.co.uk for everything and anything psychological safety, sign up to the newsletter and join the community.https://tomgeraghty.co.uk - Tom's personal site, with some stuff about resilience engineering and other complexity stuffAmy E...2021-08-1949 min
Embracing DifferencesIncident investigation: What can we learn from the software world?In this podcast, John Allspaw, the Founder of Adaptive Safety Labs and I talk about the world of software engineering and operations and its connections to safety science and human factors. Together we explore what opportunities â and challenges â exist in the domain, what incident analysis and genuine learning from incidents looks like, and what makes this an exciting time for exploring this domain from a safety perspective.2021-08-1753 min
Screaming in the CloudFinding a Common Language for Incidents with John AllspawAbout JohnJohn Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. Johnâs publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to âThe DevOps Handbook.â His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, â10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperationâ helped start the DevOps movement.John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund UniversityLinks:The Art of Capacity...2021-08-1732 min
Page it to the LimitIncidents, Response, and the People With Tim NicholasAdditional Resources
Learn more about blameless postmortems in our Ops Guide.
The Infinite Hows by John Allspaw
Our episode with John Allspaw
Our episode with J. Paul Reed
Sidney Dekker talks about accountability in Just Culture
Tim works at Xero
PagerDuty Home Page
Join the PagerDuty Community
Transcripts by Rev
2021-07-2025 min
Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering DailyDigital Ocean with John Allspaw
Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. If youâre looking to lower your AWS bill or negotiate a new contract with AWS, you can learn more about The Duckbill Groupâs services at https://www.duckbillgroup.com/.Â
Corey is also the host and creator of Last Week in AWS, which publishes newsletters and podcasts covering topics to help you stay...2021-06-1056 min
Software Engineering DailyDigital Ocean with John AllspawCorey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. If you're looking to lower your AWS bill or negotiate a new contract with AWS, you can learn more about The Duckbill Group's services at https://www.duckbillgroup.com/. Corey is also the host and creator of Last Week in AWS, which publishes newsletters and podcasts covering topics to help you stay up to date...2021-06-1053 min
0800-DEVOPSLearning from incidents with John AllspawJohn Allspaw is the founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and one of the people that drove DevOps movement from its beginnings. His (and Paul Hammondâs) famous â10+ deploys per day at Flickrâ talk at Velocity conf in 2009 showed us that there is a better way of collaborating and delivering software. Today, John focuses on helping organizations do better in incident management and learn from their own mistakes. I talked with John about incident management, learning organizations, and how the world has changed since 2009.Subscribe to 0800-DEVOPS newsletter here.Show notes:This interview is featured in 080...2021-05-1246 min
Phoenix CastThe Phoenix Project and DevOps with Gene KimIn this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project and namesake of the podcast. Gene has been studying high performing technology organizations for 23 years. His journey started in 1999 when he was the CTO and founder of a company called Tripwire in the information security space. The hosts share how his book, The Phoenix Project, inspired them and helped them succeed in the IT and innovation world. They discuss Gene's observations about what it takes to be a high performing organization and how the military is uniquely...2021-04-161h 03
Software Defined TalkThe EULA of LifeThis week we discuss Redmonkâs Language Rankings, Okta buys Auth0 and Zoom Fatigue. Plus, Matt gets a puppy and explains why he needs a longer sabbatical.
Rundown
Blameless Post Mortem Redux
John Allspaw says we got it wrong
How to run a blameless postmortem
Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021
Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet
Zoom fatigue causes: 1 easy solution according to a Stanford professor
Relevant to your interests
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is...2021-03-051h 04
SoftCraft Podcast03 - DevOpsTentokrĂĄt bez nÄjakĂ© vÄtĆĄĂ pĆĂpravy na tĂ©ma DevOps. V diskuzi zaznÄlo tĆeba, ĆŸe DevOps nenĂ infrastruktura a nic jako DevOps engineer neexistuje. NeĆĄli jsme pĆĂliĆĄ do hloubky, ale snad jsme aspoĆ dali nÄjakĂ© tipy na dalĆĄĂ zajĂmavĂ© zdroje.
Odkazy:
* [The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 25th Anniversary Edition Paperback â June 1, 2012 by Eliyahu M. Goldratt](https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951)
* [The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Hardcover â January 10, 2013 by Gene Kim (Author), Kevin Behr, George Spafford](https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helpi...2021-02-2837 min
ATARC Federal IT NewscastDevSecOps Coffee Chat with Director, System Configuration & Delivery Automation Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Spence Spencer!This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we have the pleasure of speaking with the Director of System Configuration & Delivery Automation Division at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Spence Spencer. Spencer shares his experience and insights on leading a team and putting people first! Below is his list of book suggestions. Check out this episode to learn more!
Reading List:
Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek (current read)
The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst (CEO Red Hat)
Turn the Ship Around, L. David Marquet
Out of The Crisis, W. Edwards Deming
D...2021-01-1945 min
What the Dev?What the Dev(Ops)? - Why resilience engineering can help your organization continue core functions despite stress with John Allspaw - Episode 59We spoke to John Allspaw, the principal and founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, a consulting company that helps organizations deal with data incidents, to talk about the growing concept of resilience engineering.In a nutshell, reverse engineering is concerned with adverse external events that can lead to system failure. It tests how much an organization can withstand stress and other challenging factors to continue performing its core functions and avoid loss of data.Be sure to check out Allspaw's talk at the DevOps Enterprise SummitLas Vegas on October 13th to learn more! 2020-10-0620 min
The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT RevolutionThe Surprising Implications of Architecting for Generality with Michael NygardOn this continuation of Gene Kimâs interview with Michael Nygard, Senior Vice President, Travel Solutions Platform Development Enterprise Architecture, for Sabre, they discuss his reflections on Admiral Rickover's work with the US Naval Reactor Core and how it may or may not resonate with the principles we hold so near and dear in the DevOps community. They also tease apart the learnings from the architecture of the Toyota Production System and their ability to drive down the cost of change.Â
They also discuss how we can tell when there are genuinely too many âmusical notesâ or when th...2020-09-101h 30
Page it to the LimitIncidents With John AllspawMandi Walls talks with John Allspaw, Co-Founder and Principal at Adaptive Capacity Labs, about the practice of dealing with technical incidents.2020-08-1927 minPage it to the LimitBuilding an Incident Response Plan With John AllspawJohn Allspaw joins us this week to talk about incident response, and helping organizations build their own NTSB (the National Transportation Safety Board, a US government agency that investigates transportation accidents).
Introduction
John gives us an overview of what he and the other folks at Adaptive Capacity Labs are working on.
State of the Industry
John talks about the state of the industry around incident response. Learning from incidents is happening; but are organizations supporting it? Are people finding it helpful? Expertise is coming from inside the house, in that software...2020-08-1927 min
Troubleshooting AgileMeltdown, Part IVOur first interview ever! We welcome to the studio Chris Clearfield, co-author of Meltdown, a book all about system failure and the reasons for it. Chris explains ideas like tight coupling (not the OO kind!) and system complexity, and we explore how they apply to technical debt and bug prioritisation. We get to hear some of the best stories from the book as well, including the hedge fund that lost ÂŁ500m in 45 minutes, and we learn about failcake and pre-mortem analysis.
GUEST LINKS:
- Chris's site: https://www.chrisclearfield.com
- Chris's twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisClearfield
- Book site: h...2019-08-0712 minTroubleshooting AgileMeltdown, Part IIIOur first interview ever! We welcome to the studio Chris Clearfield, co-author of Meltdown, a book all about system failure and the reasons for it. Chris explains ideas like tight coupling (not the OO kind!) and system complexity, and we explore how they apply to technical debt and bug prioritisation. We get to hear some of the best stories from the book as well, including the hedge fund that lost ÂŁ500m in 45 minutes, and we learn about failcake and pre-mortem analysis.
GUEST LINKS:
- Chris's site: https://www.chrisclearfield.com
- Chris's twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisClearfield
- Book site: h...2019-07-3116 minTroubleshooting AgileMeltdown, Part IIOur first interview ever! We welcome to the studio Chris Clearfield, co-author of Meltdown, a book all about system failure and the reasons for it. Chris explains ideas like tight coupling (not the OO kind!) and system complexity, and we explore how they apply to technical debt and bug prioritisation. We get to hear some of the best stories from the book as well, including the hedge fund that lost ÂŁ500m in 45 minutes, and we learn about failcake and pre-mortem analysis.
GUEST LINKS:
- Chris's site: https://www.chrisclearfield.com
- Chris's twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisClearfield
- Book site: h...2019-07-2419 minTroubleshooting AgileMeltdown, Part IOur first interview ever! We welcome to the studio Chris Clearfield, co-author of Meltdown, a book all about system failure and the reasons for it. Chris explains ideas like tight coupling (not the OO kind!) and system complexity, and we explore how they apply to technical debt and bug prioritisation. We get to hear some of the best stories from the book as well, including the hedge fund that lost ÂŁ500m in 45 minutes, and we learn about failcake and pre-mortem analysis.
GUEST LINKS:
- Chris's site: https://www.chrisclearfield.com
- Chris's twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisClearfield
- Book site: h...2019-07-1726 min
Practical Operations Podcast Episode FeedEpisode 70 - Monitorama 2019 PDX RecapWhere we recap Monitorama PDX 2019 and talk about our favorite talks and events.
Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Links for Episode 70:
John Allspaw - Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software
Evan Chan - Rich Histograms At Scale
FiloDB
Andrew Newdigate - Practical Anomaly Detection using Prometheus
David Calavera - Observability and Performance Analysis with BPF
Tom Wilkie - Grafana Loki: like Prometheus, but for logs
Grafana Loki
2019-06-2730 min
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots316: A Completely Orthogonal Skillset (Lara Hogan)Lara Hogan, co-founder of Wherewithall, discusses finding her ideal job coaching and mentoring, evaluating for management alignment, what makes for a strong manager, the value of role-play, constructive feedback, and her upcoming book, Resilient Management.
This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by:
PricingWire: Monetization & Pricing Strategy for Software & Technology Innovators
Links & Show Notes
Wherewithall
Not Lack of Ability but More Choice: Individual and Gender Differences in Choice of Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
"On Being A Senior Engineer"- John Allspaw
Resilient Management
Voltron
Lara on Twitter
See open...2019-04-1540 min
Greater Than Code116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt StrattonMattyâs Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze â Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018
02:59 â Mattâs Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and analogies of how we could be better at technology
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
The Four Agreements of Incident Response
03:58 â What does healing organizational trauma mean?
05:50 â Incident Response Communication
16:00 â Trust, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal; Stuck On or Stuck Off
23:32 â Leading By Example, Not Being in a Rush to Solve Problems, Seeking to Understand, and Encouraging Safety
29:23 â Handling Postmortems: How t...2019-02-0742 min
Greater Than Code116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt StrattonMattyâs Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze â Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018
02:59 â Mattâs Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and analogies of how we could be better at technology
The Five Love Languages of DevOps
The Four Agreements of Incident Response
03:58 â What does healing organizational trauma mean?
05:50 â Incident Response Communication
16:00 â Trust, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal; Stuck On or Stuck Off
23:32 â Leading By Example, Not Being in a Rush to Solve Problems, Seeking to Understand, and Encouraging Safety
29:23 â Handling Postmortems: How t...2019-02-0742 min
Technology Leadership Podcast ReviewManagers, leaders, A/B testers, and bloodlettersCourtney Eckhardt on Greater Than Code, Teresa Torres on Product Love, Johanna Rothman on Developer On Fire, Jeff Patton on Scrum Master Toolbox, and Jeff Gothelf on Scrum Master Toolbox. I'd love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two weeks period starting January 7, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the week...2019-01-1807 min
Real World DevOpsTroubleshooting in China with Steve MusheroAbout the GuestSteve Mushero is CEO of Ops Platform provider Siglos.io, and CEO of ChinaNetCloud, China's first Internet Managed Service Provider, AWS Partner, and manager of hundreds of large-scale (up to hundreds of millions of users each) systems. He's previously been CTO in a variety of organizations in Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, and around the world. You can follow along with his work and insights on LinkedIn, Medium and Twitter.Links ReferencedChinaNetCloudSiglosTaking Over & Managing Large Messy Systems (LISA 2018)Incidents as we Imagine Them...2019-01-1045 min
Arrested DevOpsThe Database Calls Are Coming From Inside the DevOps
Greg Burrell at QCon SF 2018: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
Baronâs talk from QCon SF isnât public yet, sorry. It will be. Meanwhile, here are the slides
Bonus: Baron tweeted to ask ppl about their favorite on-call resources, and Mike Julian compiled all the answers into https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/
What is DevOps?
According toâŠ
Microsoft
Amazon
New Relic
Atlassian âDevOps is the next most famous portmanteau next to Brangelinaâ
Check these out
Jess: Quantum Mechanics Without the Observer
Baron: Podcast rec: http://www.sceneonradio.org/
Matty: John Allspaw on Incidents as We Imag...2019-01-0851 min
Greater Than Code110: Human Incident Response with Courtney EckhardtRubyConf 2018 - Retrospectives for Humans by Courtney Eckhardt
01:16 â Courtneyâs Superpower: Explaining things.
06:50 â Incident Response: How we talk to people how are are affected by incidents
Other Great Incident Response GTC Episodes!
088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock
096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw
13:52 â Disabilities in the Workplace and Professional Spaces
20:25 â The Tension Between Accessibility and Security
23:20 â Developing Coping Skills in Response to a Troubled Childhood / Combatting the Feeling of Being Othered
29:16 â Incident Retrospectives and Defensiveness as a Natural Instinct to Feedback
35:29 â Showing Vulnerability
"In...2018-12-191h 00
Greater Than Code110: Human Incident Response with Courtney EckhardtRubyConf 2018 - Retrospectives for Humans by Courtney Eckhardt
01:16 â Courtneyâs Superpower: Explaining things.
06:50 â Incident Response: How we talk to people how are are affected by incidents
Other Great Incident Response GTC Episodes!
088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock
096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw
13:52 â Disabilities in the Workplace and Professional Spaces
20:25 â The Tension Between Accessibility and Security
23:20 â Developing Coping Skills in Response to a Troubled Childhood / Combatting the Feeling of Being Othered
29:16 â Incident Retrospectives and Defensiveness as a Natural Instinct to Feedback
35:29 â Showing Vulnerability
"In order...2018-12-191h 00
echo, podcast tech / dev#E23 - Les feedbacks constructifs et la communication non-violente avec Sophie DespeisseSophie Despeisse, associée et lead développeuse chez Toucan Toco, met en place une culture positive du feedback au sein de son équipe. Voici les sujets abordés dans ce podcast :
- Présentation de Sophie et de son rÎle chez Toucan Toco
- Qu'est-ce qu'un feedback ?
Sophie explique l'importance de la question du feedback, de ses liens avec les préceptes agiles aux problématiques quotidiennes.
- Quelles peuvent ĂȘtre les consĂ©quences de feedbacks mal amenĂ©s ?
- Le timing : trouver le bon moment pour adresser des feedbacks, et ne pas attendre qu'il soit trop tard.
- Le timing...2018-10-2431 min
Greater Than Code096: Resilience Engineering with John AllspawJohn Allspaw: Etsyâs Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems
01:32 â Johnâs Superpower: Seeing connections across domains.
05:45 â All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersection of People, Technology, and Work, and the Resilience Engineering Community
09:07 â Variety and Complexity
Requisite Variety
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the Worldâs Greatest Manufacturer
The Great Courses
Understanding Complexity
17:51 â Understanding Cognitive Work
25:34 â Heuristics and Biases
31:01 â Strategies for Generating Context-Specific Questions
Debriefing Facilitation Guide (Morgan Evans)
35:01 â Asking âWhy?â Over âWhat?â Questions
The PreAcc...2018-09-051h 09
Greater Than Code096: Resilience Engineering with John AllspawJohn Allspaw: Etsyâs Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems
01:32 â Johnâs Superpower: Seeing connections across domains.
05:45 â All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersection of People, Technology, and Work, and the Resilience Engineering Community
09:07 â Variety and Complexity
Requisite Variety
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the Worldâs Greatest Manufacturer
The Great Courses
Understanding Complexity
17:51 â Understanding Cognitive Work
25:34 â Heuristics and Biases
31:01 â Strategies for Generating Context-Specific Questions
Debriefing Facilitation Guide (Morgan Evans)
35:01 â Asking âWhy?â Over âWhat?â Questions
The PreAcci...2018-09-051h 09
The Food Fight ShowThe STELLA ReportJoin a discussion with John Allspaw (@allspaw) about the STELLA Report from the SNAFUcatchers Workshop on Coping With Complexity.2018-04-1054 min
Arrested DevOpsFireside Chat With Grandpa Paul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
http://theshipshow.com/
Does Humor Belong In Technology
Bryan Berryâs blog post
Live DevOps Call In Show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren
@theitskeptic on Twitter
Wardley mapping introduction and [https://twitter.com/swardley](Simon Wardleyâs) free Wardley Mapping book
New York Times article on life at Etsy today
This American Life episode about NUMMI
DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw
The Ship Show - Extinguishing Burnout
Twitter thread about adding release management features to git
Sysadvent Day 3 - 14 Tips for Git Giddiness in 2014
Ma...2017-12-0400 min
The Fat Pipe Of The Packet Pushers PodcastsDatanauts 107: Found On The Internet Series 3It’s back to the flea market of ideas that is the Web for the latest in the Datanauts’ ‘Found On The Internet’ series.
Chris and Ethan sift through online baubles, notions, and curiosities to find just the right accent pieces to decorate the bridge of the Datanauts Starship.
Our finds for Series 3 include container adoption, storage network topologies, PowerShell, IT blame culture, and so much more to delight and amaze!
Show Links:
Microsoft: Embrace Containers or Face Extinction – Container Journal
Hope Versus Reality, One Year Later: An Update on Containers –...2017-10-2544 min
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning FromJohn Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages. Why they cannot be totally prevented, how to respond, and what we can learn from them.2017-03-0751 min
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning FromJohn Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages. Why they cannot be totally prevented, how to respond, and what we can learn from them.2017-03-0751 minSoftware Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning FromJohn Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages. Why they cannot be totally prevented, how to respond, and what we can learn from them.2017-03-0751 min
Software Defined TalkLife after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down UnderWith a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new âassetâ and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the âlosersâ are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia!
Mid-roll
CotĂ©: Iâm speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off!
Matt:
Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group
Microsoft Ignite Aust...2017-01-301h 01
Tech Done RightEpisode 002: Career Development With Brandon Hays and Pete BrooksDescription
Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks join the Tech Done Right podcast to discuss career development. We'll discuss some career development questions like: What makes somebody a senior developer? How do you acquire senior developer skills? What can you do to prepare yourself for a lifetime career and ensure that you are properly valued?
Show Notes
Pete Brooks: Software Developer at Table XI. Author of "How I landed my first programming job"
Brandon Hays: âMy friendâ and line-level developer at OJO Labs
02:07 - Classifying Yourself as a Developer
- The...2017-01-2540 min
Tech Done RightEpisode 002: Career Development With Brandon Hays and Pete BrooksDescription
Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks join the Tech Done Right podcast to discuss career development. We'll discuss some career development questions like: What makes somebody a senior developer? How do you acquire senior developer skills? What can you do to prepare yourself for a lifetime career and ensure that you are properly valued?
Show Notes
Pete Brooks: Software Developer at Table XI. Author of "How I landed my first programming job"
Brandon Hays: âMy friendâ and line-level developer at OJO Labs
02:07 - Classifying Yourself as a Developer
- The Conjoined Triangles of S...2017-01-2540 min
The Reboot Podcast#40 Beyond Blame - with Dave Zwieback & Jerry ColonnaâThe way to start would be, first, when we feel the tendency to blame, to try to get in touch with what it feels like to be holding on to ourselves so tightly. What does it feel like to blame? How does it feel to reject? What does it feel like to hate? What does it feel like to be righteously indignant?â - Pema Chodron Thereâs something calming about finding a target for our blame. Itâs like in this moment of being lost in a rough sea of chaos and uncertainty, a person to assign the fault is like an...2016-05-1444 min
The Reboot Podcast#40 Beyond Blame - with Dave Zwieback & Jerry ColonnaâThe way to start would be, first, when we feel the tendency to blame, to try to get in touch with what it feels like to be holding on to ourselves so tightly. What does it feel like to blame? How does it feel to reject? What does it feel like to hate? What does it feel like to be righteously indignant?â - Pema Chodron Thereâs something calming about finding a target for our blame. Itâs like in this moment of being lost in a rough sea of chaos and uncertainty, a person to assign the fault is like an...2016-05-1445 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps Culture Change With Bill JoyHow to Change the Culture of an Organization
âChange management rests with the howâ â Bill Joy
DevOps revolves a lot around what an organization and culture should look like. We talk about it on just about every episode of this podcast. Something we tend to skate around though is the how. How do you change the culture of an organization?
Matt got to sit down and have an incredible conversation with Bill Joy of the Joy Group about the how of influencing change. We didnât talk about what changes companies needed to make, we talked a...2015-04-0100 min
Arrested DevOpsIncidents and Accidents: Examining Failure Without BlameDave is at Next Big Sound, which does analytics for creative industries, and heâs seen a few orgs handle failure well, and a lot of organizations handle it poorly. He got interested in blameless postmortems and human factors in discussions with John Allspaw of Etsy, and Allspaw influenced him to read the work of David Wood and Sidney Dekker on human factors. He is writing a book for OâReilly called Being Blameless.
MCR works at Etsy now, but has spent a lot of time consulting at various firms where heâs seen failure handled with blame...2015-01-1600 min
Arrested DevOpsDevOps at Etsy: Not a Unicorn, Just a Sparkly Horse
Episode 11: Etsy Examined - How the Best Do Their Business by Food Fight
BOFH (the Bastard Operator From Hell)
Check Outs
Jon Cowie
dmg cookbook
rbenv cookbook
David Yurkiewicz
Pushover.net
Pete Bellisano
Buffalo Trace whiskey
John Allspaw
Lloyd Taylor "Hacking Your Organization"
Trevor
Shortcut-Fu
Agents of Shield
Matt
Vimium - Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor
Release! The Game
2014-05-2157 min
RunAs RadioJeffrey Snover Is Serious About DevOps!Richard chats with Jeffrey Snover about DevOps at Microsoft. The concept of DevOps goes back to a talk that John Allspaw and Paul Hammond did at Velocity called 10 Deploys Per Day. DevOps focuses on having developers and operations working closely together to make rapid deployments possible. Jeff discusses his blog post on the subject of Windows Server 2012, PowerShell 3.0 and DevOps. DevOps is coming to the Microsoft world, are you ready?
2012-08-0138 min
O'Reilly Media's Velocity PodcastJohn Allspaw on DevOps2012-05-1523 min