REdeploy 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome & Opening | J. Paul Reed, Mary Thengvall | 14m |
Opening covers housekeeping: a clear code of conduct, photo and pronoun sticker policies, gender‑neutral restrooms and a quiet room for those on call or… | ||
| In the Center of the Cyclone: Finding Sources of Resilience | John Allspaw | 27m |
Argues that resilience is actual human work — sustained adaptive capacity — located above the drawn system boundary in people’s mental models rather than in… | ||
| Availability, Latency and Cost: Withstanding Regional Outages | Aaron Blohowiak | 33m |
Netflix describes an active‑active multi‑region deployment with DNS/SSL terminating proxies and regionally isolated change rollout, backed by algebraic… | ||
| Resilient Systems Require Resilient People | Hannah Foxwell | 24m |
Argues that human resilience is a learnable set of skills and that internal locus of control plus a growth mindset predict better outcomes. Compares quarterly… | ||
| When Will They Ever Learn? | David N. Blank-Edelman | 33m |
Two-thirds of people report déjà vu; it first appears around age eight or nine, peaks near 25, and links to temporal-lobe epilepsy in some cases. Labs reliably… | ||
| Recognizing Zombies, Black Holes & Tribbles Before You Get Eaten | Avery Regier | 38m |
A practical set of defenses: an open source work-tracker that uses a custom ticketed concurrent collection to stream in-flight requests, detect long-running… | ||
| The Human Nature of Failure and Resiliency | VM Brasseur | 39m |
Condenses 3,000 pages of research and a 200‑item bibliography into forty minutes, claiming humans are the primary cause of system failures and that latent… | ||
| Chaos Engineering: A Step Towards Resilience | Nora Jones | 38m |
Chaos engineering at Netflix uses chap to clone a small experimental replica, tag requests and inject failures or latency while comparing against a control and… | ||
| Speaker Panel - Day 1 | Hannah Foxwell, Aaron Blohowiak, David N. Blank-Edelman, VM Brasseur, Nora Jones, John Allspaw, Avery Regier | 49m |
Panel argues chaos engineering works when teams opt-in not opt-out and carefully limit blast radius — one early experiment took down QA for a week. Adoption… | ||
| The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming | Jessica Kerr | 38m |
A historical claim ties the Florentine Camerata (~1580–1600, Florence) to the invention of opera by shifting polyphony to single melody with accompaniment… | ||
| Try Catch Blocks for your Distributed System | Cecilia Deng | 39m |
Argues for concrete practices: run design and code reviews, validate rolling deployments for dual-version compatibility, and exercise canaries that are canary… | ||
| Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma | Matt Stratton | 33m |
Organizations treat outages like trauma: repeated incidents leave a lasting “scar” that drives fight/flight/freeze behaviors such as permanent war‑room… | ||
| Mindfulness at Work: A Way to Overcome the Overwhelm | Lee Kussmann | 36m |
Tech workplaces face large numbers: 79% of Americans feel stressed sometimes or frequently, over $300 billion a year in US stress costs, and happy workers… | ||
| Out of Maintenance Mode: Refactoring a Community | Matt Broberg | 30m |
Claim: putting the project into maintenance mode and pausing PR work for months lets contributors rethink structure. Action: interview ~50 top contributors… | ||
| How Security Requirements Turned Us into Accidental Chaos Engineers | Paul Carleton | 29m |
A cron job called Lifespan Management enforces max age on AWS VMs by terminating ASG instances and letting replacements boot; it scales terminations roughly… | ||
| Operating at the Edge of the Envelope | Laura MD Maguire | 45m |
A near‑miss on a glacial rappel illustrates how human teams operate at the edge of the envelope: surprise is normal, failures cluster at shifting boundaries… | ||
| Speaker Panel - Day 2 | Laura MD Maguire, Cecilia Deng, Matt Stratton, Matt Broberg, Lee Kussmann, Paul Carleton, Jessica Kerr | 37m |
Panelists argue resilience requires concrete practices not platitudes: adopt psychological safety, run postmortems and mindfulness exercises, and fund… | ||
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