This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
Podcast Description
A podcast about resilience engineering and software.
Ever wondered why things on the internet break? Do you work in software and wish that you could have a Dear-Abby-Like call-in show that could answer your deepest questions about how to make your workplace suck less? We're here to help!
Write us anonymously at our open question form
Email us at: [email protected]
Call us and leave a voicemail, or text us at: (401) 592-7574
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The podcast covers a variety of themes centering on resilience engineering, including human factors in system failures, AI's role in resilience, and practical recommendations for newcomers to the field. Notable episodes include a guest discussion with Courtney Nash on AI and resilience, as well as an exploration of the 2024 DORA report's implications for software performance.

A podcast about resilience engineering and software.
Ever wondered why things on the internet break? Do you work in software and wish that you could have a Dear-Abby-Like call-in show that could answer your deepest questions about how to make your workplace suck less? We’re here to help!
Write us anonymously at our open question form
Email us at: [email protected]
Call us and leave a voicemail, or text us at: (401) 592-7574
The Keewenaw snow gauge that Colette mentioned is a tourist attraction. If you want to see where measurements are at for the season you can find them here: https://www.pasty.com/snow/
The paper we’re talking about today can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003687020301903
If you want to know more about SNAFU Catchers, you can see their website here: https://www.snafucatchers.com/
They produced the STELLA report: https://snafucatchers.github.io/
Richard Cook’s Bone Talk is kind of famous – here’s a version from REDeploy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4
Some writing from New Relic about NERFs: https://newrelic.com/blog/observability/best-practices-incident-commander-training
We failed to mention it in the podcast itself, but Michael Wettick did a great thesis at Lund on asking for help in software operations incidents: https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9150096&fileOId=9150099
Speaking of Hitchhiker’s Guide, etsy has some cool merch: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1071043200/dont-panic-hitchhikers-guide-to-the
You can find David Woods’ paper on Graceful Extensibility here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10669-018-9708-3
Our Paper Club event on this paper on March 17th can be signed up for here: https://resilienceinsoftware.org/events/164680

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