Perpetual cynic and hopeless optimist. SRE. Resilience in Software Foundation. Journalism, security and privacy. Equality for all. (he/him)
Austin, TX
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I remember how much effort it took to commit some commands to muscle memory (tcpdump, lsof, nc, openssl, strace etc), and even then just a limited set of these.
and now to see agents blaze through a debugging session conjuring commands and spellings I didn’t even know existed 🤯
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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?
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In remembrance of the late @ri_cook (August 31, 2022).
adaptivecapacitylabs.com/202…
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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
piped.video/watch?v=ecZp6cWh…
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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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Some scientists believe that there is an approximately 12-per-cent chance of a severe solar storm striking the Earth in the next decade—which could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared? nyer.cm/jXsYO5d
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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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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…
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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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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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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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A fabulous paper about the pioneer @ri_cook.
researchgate.net/publication…
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First up on the resilience track is our host @v_hue_g
qconnewyork.com/presentation…
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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
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…
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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…
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"Software will eat the world," Marc Andreesen said in 2011.
Now in 2023, it's "AI will eat the world."
And Andreesen is investing in it.
A16Z's recent AI investments 👇
ALT Source: @JordiCabot
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AI still has a hard time grasping humanlike concepts like analogies. How can we teach it something even more abstract, like truthfulness? quantamagazine.org/what-does…
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