Just Out! "Beyond Root Cause: A Better Approach to Understanding Complex System Failures" I'm excited to share my latest article, which explains why traditional root cause analysis and the 5 Whys approach fall short in complex systems. I hope you enjoy it! www.resiliumlabs.com/blog/beyond-...

Beyond Root Cause: A Better Approach to Understanding Complex System Failures

Discover why traditional root cause analysis and 5 Whys frameworks fall short in complex systems. Learn practical alternatives and the 'Trojan Horse' approach to implement meaningful change in your or...

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Resilience Bites #9 - LinkedIn Rewind (week 14) is out! I've discussed a few key concepts, including Sherlock Holmes' "Dogs Not Barking", the tension between high standards and adaptability, and why sometimes "turning it off and on again" contains hidden wisdom. adhorn.me/posts/resili...

Resilience Bites #9 - LinkedIn Rewind (week 14) — adhorn.me

Discover the latest insights, innovations, and discussions about resilience engineering. Stay ahead with Resilience Bites.

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🚀🚀🚀New blog post! 🚀🚀🚀 I have been thinking a lot about AI meta-operators, which are AI agents that will manage our systems and make operational decisions. In this blog post, I am sharing some thoughts and asking questions. I hope you enjoy it! medium.com/the-cloud-ar... #AI

When AI Makes the Call

Questions About Meta-Operators and System Responsibility

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🚀 New blog post out! 🚀 This post discusses the 70% problem with AI-generated code, Bainbridge's automation ironies, and what chaos engineering can teach us about managing complexity in the age of AI. I hope you enjoy it! Happy weekend! adhorn.medium.com/chaos-engine...

Chaos Engineering in the Age of AI: Surfacing Hidden Complexity

The rise of AI in software development presents a fascinating paradox. While AI tools make it easier than ever to generate complex systems…

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In every system, something works. Rather than asking what's wrong and how to fix it, ask what's working and how to get more of it.

The best time to test your runbook is before the incident, not during it.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

“In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous.” ― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

@adhorn.me - another one stacked with greatest-hits: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/t...

The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

Today’s public incident writeup comes courtesy of Brendan Humphries, the CTO of Canva. Like so many other incidents that came before, this is another tale of saturation, where the failure mod…

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That is pretty scary.

Beau Woods@beauwoods.com · 2y ago

Cyber journalist friends: when reporting on healthcare industry plans to do nothing on cybersecurity or even to roll back protections, please get them to respond to this type of data point (via @downing.bsky.social) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Will 2025 finally mark the rise of the Chief Resilience Officer?

Right. The years and billions of dollars spent preparing are why Y2K didn’t “live up to the hype.” They *fixed* it. Before it happened. Which is good. Yes.

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

"Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option." spaceref.com/status-repor...

“Some problems are better evaded than solved.” Tony Hoare

"There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors." Tony Hoare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ho...

Tony Hoare - Wikipedia

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"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle

New HUGE Launch - AWS FIS now supports networking actions on AWS Fargate!!!! Network latency, Network blackhole, and Network packet loss are ready to be used! Long awaited. I'm super happy to see this one out for the end of 2024! Have fun! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Amazon ECS now supports network fault injection experiments on AWS Fargate - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon ECS now supports network fault injection experiments on AWS Fargate

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My second re:Invent talk is up! In this talk, I dive into the internals of thew new Aurora DSQL, looking at how we achieve each of the ACID properties, and highlight some of the decisions we made as we designed the product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGm...

AWS re:Invent 2024 - Deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL and its architecture (DAT427-NEW)

YouTube video by AWS Events

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Static stability. Where 'doing nothing' is actually the most productive response.

I have been doing an #amazon-q-advent over the past 12 days, and have daily Amazon Q Developer tips that I will publish until Christmas Day. Today's post - dev.to/aws/amazon-q...

Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.12 Mastering in-line prompts

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate...

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Don’t fear what you know about your systems. Fear what you don’t know!

Can you imagine if people acted like most software libraries? You’d ask them a question, and sometimes, they’d just stand there, waiting for an answer forever. Set explicit timeouts folks.

There are two kinds of developers: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say "There are two kinds of developers: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say"...

The fourth and last in my series of blog posts on our new Aurora DSQL database is up! This time, we're looking at what happens during network partitions, and how we preserve consistency, availability, and durability. Check it out: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

During @werner.social keynote at #reinvent, I was secretly hoping he would bring in the crew from that video , taking down a Jeep and putting it back together in under 5 minutes. That is Simplexity at its best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnLZ...

Crew tears apart and rebuilds Jeep in minutes

YouTube video by Rumble.com

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Technology is evolving to tackle humanity's hardest problems. From clean energy innovations and disaster preparedness to tools to fight disinformation, success now means making a positive impact. Read my tech predictions for 2025 and beyond: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/12/tech...

Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond

We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These ar...

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You want 99.999% availability for every services within your application? Are you sure? Because last I checked, not all services are created equal, folks. Know what really matters most to your users and business.

One of the best part about being part of this organization is working with a team that's constantly innovating. This includes a team of scientists that continue to equip the Q Dev Agent with more capabilities, e.g. new tools to search, navigate, understand, and modify code with precision.

Clare Liguori@clare.dev · 2y ago

We're always iterating and improving Q Developer Agent. Today we launched three new abilities: * unit tests * documentation * code reviews AND as of today, Q Dev Agent is #1 on SWE-Bench Verified benchmark, resolving a massive 54.8% of issues. Agentic development truly transforms how we write code.

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

More information from @marcbrooker.bsky.social on the Aurora DSQL announcement brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...