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“On-Call Is Ruining My Life” and Other Tales about Holding the Pager as an SRESREcon25 Americas2025-03-25
A 65‑question survey of largely 500+ org engineers with ~18 years’ experience finds 87% unhappy with on‑call status quo and 74% experiencing overload or…
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Surprise! Inspiring ResilienceRubyConf 20212021-11-08
A checklist of specifics: a Formula 2 driver survives a fire extinguisher in cockpit while piloting a ~$500k car at speed, the US Navy keeps a plane guard…
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Observing from IncidentsSREcon20 Americas2020-12-07
Companies mine Slack incident transcripts with Jelly to extract the concrete questions people ask and then encode those signals into dashboards: link runbooks…
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No-Nonsense Observability ImprovementKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 20192019-11-18
Six practical moves: promote the work so leadership and teams see wins; teach the basics with hands-on onboarding and follow-up practice; run game days, load…
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Better Monitoring for Humans: The CASE MethodDevOpsDays Raleigh 20192019-10-01
A four-part rubric called CASE prescribes concrete changes: make alerts context heavy with recent changes, ownership, diagrams and Slack links; make them…
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