This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
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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!
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Email us at: [email protected]
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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
Colette’s talk at SRECon intro: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/alexander
Clint’s talk at SRECon intro: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/byrum
Dan Slimmon is an excellent engineer (per Clint’s shoutout) and ALSO an excellent podcast creator/host: https://techblows.net/
Michelle Brush’s Keynote summary is here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/brush
Jevon’s Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Dr. Nicole Forsgren’s talk summary: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/forsgren
DORA is always worth a dive into if you haven’t taken a look yet: https://dora.dev/
The blog post Colette mentioned comparing AI gold rush to Mao’s Revolution: https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
Many people have written about why MTTR is a bad metric to track, you can read a write up from Adrian Hornsby here: https://newsletter.resiliumlabs.com/p/mttr-problems-better-incident-metrics
And watch the OG, Courtney Nash, speak about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCgBOHo8EY
Beth Long’s SRE Soundbath: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/long
Vanessa Huerta-Granda’s talk is summarized here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/huerta-granda
Martin Smith and Abe Hoffman’s talk is summarized here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/hoffman
Some information about Metrist: https://vault42consulting.com/about/portfolio/metrist
AI Agents Good Bad and Ugly talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/budichenko
The CAST talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/barroso
Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson is worth a look: https://bookshop.org/p/books/engineering-a-safer-world-systems-thinking-applied-to-safety-nancy-g-leveson/57b01ef464f9f81b?ean=9780262533690&next=t
Erik Hollnagel wrote the book on FRAM and it has a lot of support in the safety world across industries: https://functionalresonance.com/ and https://etn-peter.eu/2021/02/11/fram-in-a-nutshell/ are good resources.
Daria Barteneva’s closing keynote on game theory and SRE was great: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/barteneva
Some good stuff on Above the Line/Below the Line, if you’re curious:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3380777
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5U85LSk0M
Lorin Hochstein’s closing keynote on storytelling was rad: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/hochstein
SRECon EMEA 2026 (in Dublin) has their CFP up: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26emea/call-for-participation
As always, you can check out the Resilience in Software Foundation at resilienceinsoftware.org
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