Jacob Scott (jhscott)

Jacob Scott (jhscott)

10-8-2019

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A narrative introduction to modern safety science When it comes to complex socio-technical systems, I'm happy to report that I've run across two great works of non-fiction whose stories I believe could help prime the curious for a deeper exploration of modern safety science
12-23-2019
I sat in on a Honeycomb incident review and you won't believe what we learned next On November 8th, Honeycomb held an incident review, and on November 21st, Liz published the public report linked above. At Liz’ invitation, I was a guest at the review, and below is what I learned.
12-17-2019
Towards rejection of root cause as a term of art
12-7-2019
Two philosophies on achieving reliability I see two major philosophies that underpin approaches to achieving reliability in the software industry. In brief, they are * Reliability is achieved through engineering quantitive systems and processes that provide correct choices to tradeoff decisions ...
12-4-2019
Learning from Incidents launch and a blog dump Last week Nora Jones and illustrious co-conspirators[1] launched the web and Twitter presence of the Learning from Incidents in Software community, with the intent to “to reshape how the software industry thinks about incidents, software reliability, and t...
12-3-2019
The Many Definitions of Resilience
11-21-2019
Moving past shallow Friday deploys
10-31-2019
Two questions I am bringing with me to REdeploy 2019
10-16-2019
Embracing SRE as an incomplete approach to reliability ... What I believe is more impactful is (Sloss’ definition of) SRE dodging substantial complexity by (implicitly?) arguing that a well-selected, well-monitored collection of SLOs that are all green is sufficient for a system to be reliable...
10-14-2019