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Outside of software, resilience engineering is an established field using this definition and disambiguating the others. Some info on the origins going back to the 70s http://erikh…

We haven’t acknowledged that trying to ‘find causes’ at all is misleading! Causes are something we create and construct afterwards. They aren’t a primitive that make up incidents. …

It sounds like you might be interested in rhizomatic actor networks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor–network_theory

Spring is probably the only thing. All the rest of the stuff on the tech blog and Netflix OSS is heavily AWS centric, even the container platform Titus. Spring Cloud includes a lot…

Running apache in front of tomcat is still a very common pattern. Mostly due to connection handling and configuration around it.

Aside from the not-Uber aspect, istio and envoy have driven a lot of excitement around lyft from a tech perspective. I wonder how much that factors in here or if I'm overestimating…

I have an adjustable desk. It's really nice to be able to move around throughout the day, but for any thoughtful task that requires some amount focus, I have to sit. I'd like to re…

naive tip: give your app that is relying on github a SKIPGIT environment variable to ignore the bits around git operations, and just make local changes as an interim hack.

Having worked at an MMO dev, I think this talk's praises and criticisms are all super on point. The social stereotypes of tech are I think even more pronounced in the games industr…

>Etsy’s insistence on running its own servers rather than using cloud-based services and software offered by companies such as Google and Amazon—an emphasis that was known, under D…

Good feedback from peers I think is critical, but the 360 review process most companies have does not provide introspective and effective feedback. Your bullet points can be addres…

An immediate review system, which in this case sounds like just a forum for immediate complaints/reprimands, sounds terrible because given a negative situation the feedback hasn't …

I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and it might be prudent to take a 'human factors' (Woods, Cook, Dekker, et al) approach to this. When talking about how it's perhaps mor…

John Allspaw at Etsy talks about these safety culture luminaries all the time.

If I really wanted to bring up a topic that had passed, I would break out to a separate channel and invite the relevant people and drop a note in the main channel with a "bringing …

Will be interesting to see how this argument may be affected by life extension technology and if natural death is ever cured.

Irvine, CA has this occurring. 2014 numbers reported that 80% of single family homes in the area were bought by Chinese families (random first google hit article on it: http://www.…

All the attempts at 'slack best practices' since this article was written in June 2015 are basically to not do #1, #2, & #3. If Slack is an authoritative source of information that…