Clint "SpamapS" Byrum

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Measuring your organization's reliability by counting incidents or averaging their length is like measuring your company's value by how many emails the sales team sends, and how many words on average they contain. #resilience #NoMTTR

If you are developing any system, listen to this. Today.

Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social

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This assumes that every expert comprehension job is only going comprehension.

There's a lot of graceful extensibility in all expertise. They aren't just comprehending. They're noticing patterns, and defending the system with subtle, nigh invisible adjustments constantly.

Wait till Trump finds out that everything the president does in an official capacity is by definition in the public domain.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Ok this is maybe the first time my general disgust for AI has been overwhelmed by my sense of mirth and joy. 😅

#NoKings Hundreds of us in Burbank joined millions showing up for our democracy today. So proud to be an American (and proud of my son Oliver for showing up to protest with me!). 🇺🇸📣🚫👑

Has anyone like, checked in on what the president's algorithm is showing him? Like, "Portland is literally burning to the ground" -- is that a lie to justify intimidating liberal cities... Or is he watching AI generated content of.. Portland burning to the ground?

I don't know what we do with the Senate, but why is she not House Minority Leader already

(I know why, you don't have to tell me)

This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*

It's where you ask the AI "how do I prevent incidents?" And then you do whatever it tells you to do.

With kindness, because Gergely says a lot of smart things, I disagree. This is classic hindsight bias.

Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.

Their mission is to distract you from the falling president.

Let my 574 day Duolingo streak go today.

I think of an incident retro as akin to meeting with customer to discuss their needs. Spending that time discussing how you’ll build a solution is not a good use of the limited time you have with them. Instead, we should use that time to understand their problems and context. Solutions come later.

They'd be fine with al-Sharaa if he just found Jesus.

I'm more and more convinced that Idiocracy is about the singularity.

Oh look, new automation creating new types of work.

If you can’t see the constraints and tradeoffs that people face, you won’t be able to make sense of their behavior.

I picked a hell of a week to roll over that old 401k. Kinda ruined the feeling of adult accomplishment when they sell your shares on the worst day in market history.

Teaser Episode - Season 2 YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast

Well we did it, we finished a "Season". Watch as we wrap up season 1 and kick off season 2. More resilience, more questions, and, oh, yeah, come find us at #SREcon North America. We want to chat with you about resilience!

youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo

Senior Platform Engineer, United States - Careers at HashiCorp Join our team and help us build industry-leading products that are redefining how enterprises are running their IT infrastructure.

So you like solving puzzles that involve TTLs, queues, transactions, etc eh? Do you find joy in refactoring APIs so that they only work the right way? Do state machines cower in your presence? I've got a job for you!

www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...

Fewer staircases in new LA buildings? Why experts say it could unlock more housing A new Los Angeles City Council proposal aims to allow single-staircase buildings, a change advocates say would make room for more apartments, including bigger units for young families.

Yes! Get those walkable neighborhoods humming. We don't want 400 flat mega apartments that span multiple blocks. Just build 6 floors of apartments wherever 2 floor duplexes are being replaced.
laist.com/news/housing...

What a great podcast! Honored to be talking about Resilience Engineering with @colettecello.bsky.social and @spamaps.org!

Episode 10 - When They go Full ITIL on You w/special guest John Allspaw YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast

@allspaw.bsky.social joined us last week to help contrast ITIL's approach of "Counting and tabulating incidents" with the resilience engineering way of looking directly at the messy reality underneath them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...

a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ? ALT: a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ?

How many 9s do you need, and how do you get there? @spamaps.org has some advice over on the @resilienceinsoftware.org blog.
resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335

NYers brace for effects of higher bank fees, dismantling CFPB Some New York members of Congress are trying to repeal bank overdraft fee regulations. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency estimates could save people nationwide $5 billion.

But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.

Murkowski: “It’s Denali.” | U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...

You Can’t Build More Nines More nines are achievable… whether we consciously know this or not, we didn’t do it just by building software.

I've been thinking a lot lately about "uptime" and "nines" and how easy it is to forget the human components.
medium.com/@Spamaps/you...

Episode 9 Learning from Incidents with special guest Alex Elman YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast

We're back! Alex Elman joined us to chat about Learning From Incidents, which apparently is just like eating your vegetables. So is listening to our podcast, so, go eat your resilience vegetables!
youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg