Fireside Chat with Dr. Richard Cook
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Argues that resilience is a continual, observable capacity distinct from reliability, not just fewer outages, and that COVID forced rapid adaptation at scale (cloud and DevOps workflows stretched but largely kept services running). Warns that adaptation can consume resilience if organizations don’t invest in sustained adaptive capacity. Recommends shifting measurement away from incident counts toward uncovering how resilience is actually produced, uses Discord and conference exchanges as data sources, and cites a forthcoming paper with Beth Long.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:06Resilience as constant presence
- 3:30Enhancing or eroding resilience
- 5:15Resilience vs reliability
- 7:39Incident avoidance misconceptions
- 9:00Adaptation and sustained capacity
- 11:27Learning from disruption
- 12:30DevOps as adaptive tool
- 14:37Biology lessons for systems
- 16:20Observing resilience in practice
- 18:47Q&A and closing remarks
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