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Blame shuts down learning. That’s true whether the blame comes from a manager, from a peer, or from self-blame.
Brent Chapman
This article argues that when we use AI to move faster, we’re limited by the “weak link” in our sociotechnical system: humans.
Hamed Silatani — Uptime Labs
Two cool ideas in this one that stood out to me: identity diversity versus cognitive diversity and the practice of having everyone write up what they think happened in an incident before the retrospective meeting.
Nick Travaglini — Honeycomb
Every GCP resource and API have quotas. In a big organization, you can start having production incidents due to hitting quotas you didn’t know about in projects you have never touched before.
Aksel Allas — Coop Norge SA
Maybe that complex HA system is difficult enough to operate that a single-host solution would be more reliable.
Jos Visser
LLMs enable interesting new use cases, like writing single-use code for use during incidents or testing.
Oren Eini
A good introduction to formal verification and how LLMs can help. Formal verification may be more practical now that LLMs can help us write the proofs.
Fernanda Graciolli and Nada Amin — ACM Queue