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Resilience Engineering: Part I
I’ve been drafting this post for a really long time. Like most posts, it’s largely for me to get some thoughts down. It’s also very related to the topic I’ll be talking about at Velocity later this...
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Training Organizational Resilience in Escalating Situations
This little ramble of thoughts are related to my talk at Velocity coming up, but I know I’ll never get to this part at the conference, so I figured I’d post about it here. Building resilience from a...
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Systems Engineering: A great definition.
Ben Rockwood said something last December about the re-emergence of the Systems Engineer and I agree with him, 100%. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, 2007 To add to that, I’d like to quote the...
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Fault Tolerance and Protection
In yet another post where I point to a paper written from the perspective of another field of engineering about a topic that I think is inherently mappable to the web engineering world, I’ll at least...
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The Devil’s In The Details
I’m a firm believer that context is everything, and that it’s needed in every constructive conversation we want to have as engineers. As a nascent (but adorable) engineering field, we discuss (in...
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Fundamental: Stress-Strain Curves In Web Engineering
I make it no secret that my background is in mechanical engineering. I still miss those days of explicit and dynamic finite element analysis, when I worked for the VNTSC, working on vehicle...
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A Mature Role for Automation: Part I
(Part 1 of 2 posts) I’ve been percolating on this post for a long time. Thanks very much to Mark Burgess for reviewing early drafts of it. One of the ideas that permeates our field of web operations is...
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UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of sponsorship. I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while...
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Availability: Nuance As A Service
Something that has struck me funny recently surrounds the traditional notion of availability of web applications. With respect to its relationship to revenue, to infrastructure and application...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Monitoring/Metrics/Alerting Companies
I’d like to open up a dialogue with companies who are selling X-As-A-Service products that are focused on assisting operations and development teams in tracking the health and performance of their...
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