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episode 5 - curating your resilience engineering 101

We talk about our favorite recommendations for someone who's just getting into this whole resilience engineering thing.

A small note: Clint's voice is a little low in this one! We tried to do audio magic as much as we could to fix it, but hopefully you'll forgive us with your holiday spirit and we'll do better next time. <3

Notes:

⁠How Complex Systems Fail⁠ by Richard I. Cook

⁠Resilience in Complex Adaptive Systems⁠ by Richard I. Cook at Velocity NY, 2013

⁠Moving Gracefully from Compliance to Learning⁠ by Ivan Pupulidy at LFI Conf, 2023

⁠Going Solid⁠ by Richard I Cook and Jens Rasmussen (NOT Dave Woods, Colette had a brain malfunction)

⁠Prosaic Organizational Failure⁠ by Lee Clarke and Charles Perrow

Lee Clarke also wrote the stellar ⁠Mission Improbable⁠ about Fantasy Documents

You should check out Ben Hutchinson on⁠ LinkedIn⁠ and also he wrote about ⁠Fantasy Documents/Enabling Devices⁠

⁠The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error⁠ by Sidney Dekker

⁠The Maintenance Race⁠ by Stewart Brand

⁠Wisdom From The Sharp End⁠ Agile2024 slides by Clint Byrum

Clint’s talk at Agile 2024 doesn’t seem to be on YouTube yet?

⁠The Howie Guide⁠ is now at PagerDuty since they bought Jeli

Okay fine, you want ⁠Colette’s thesis involving Fantasy Documents, Enabling Devices and Cybersecurity⁠?

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Episode 3 - lions, tigers and metrics, oh my!

We answered a set of questions about how to deal with dashboards and MTTR and how to make the best of the situation with the help of special guest Vanessa Huerta Granda.
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Episode 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...

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Episode 1 - Every Second Counts

The introduction episode of This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering in the software world. Clint and Colette discuss conferences and a little bit of their history. Then they answer a question from a (prospective) listener: How do you politely ask executives/senior members of a company to step away from an incident...?

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