J. Paul Reed
where else to find them
mastodon:@jpaulreed@mastodon.social
what they talk about
all 6 in the filters
where they keep going back
- DevOpsCon4 editions2017–2019
- Devopsdays Boston2 editions2017–2019
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Adam Mckaigonce
- Cail Youngonce
- Chitkala Sethuramanonce
all 10 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
- Matt Stratton30 talks
- Kerri Miller19 talks
- Russ Miles22 talks
- Julie Gunderson7 talks
- Mandi Walls14 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Ironies of AI² | SREcon26 Americas | 2026-03-24 |
Automation erodes manual skills, can hide degrading states, and deployed AI agents sometimes act without needed checks: an agent-to-agent localization change… | ||
| Lightning Talks | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Nine micro-updates: cognition research shows experts use recognition and mental simulation with limits of three moving parts and ~six steps so planning lets… | ||
| When /bin/sh Attacks: Revisiting "Automate All the Things" | SREcon20 Americas | 2020-12-07 |
Argues that pervasive shell automation and orchestration (bash, Jenkins, Slack low‑code) can degrade operator skills and hide failure modes, citing Knight… | ||
| When /bin/sh Attacks: Revisiting "Automate All the Things" | LISA19 | 2019-10-28 |
Argues that automation often hides failures and erodes operator skill: manual skills deteriorate if automation runs tasks for months, auto-scaling and… | ||
| Attempting to Bring Blamelessness to Traffic Court | DevOpsDays Chicago 2019 | 2019-08-27 |
Claims that blameless incident analysis maps to traffic court, supported by concrete evidence: field photos, the California manual of traffic signs, DMV… | ||
| The Troubles of Automating “all the Things” | DevOpsCon Spring 2019 | 2019-06-11 |
Shows concrete failures: an invoice/reporting/payment stack accrues undocumented scripts and monitoring, auto‑scaling hides faults, and an HFT deployment loses… | ||
| Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals | DevOps Conference Spring 2019 | 2019-03-25 |
Argues that the valuable thing is not the topic but concrete practices: simian army chaos tools (including human and hardware drills), chat‑ops and teammate… | ||
| Whispers in the Chaos Monitoring Weak Signals | DevOps Conference 2018 | 2018-12-03 |
"The complexity of the socio-technical systems we engineer, operate, and exist within is staggering. Despite this complexity, it remains a fact of life in… | ||
| The five dirty Words of CI | DevOps Conference 2018 | 2018-12-03 |
"Blameless postmortems and learning from failure are very en vogue in the technology industry right now. Both fall into that less-discussed category of "CI"… | ||
| Welcome & Opening | REdeploy 2018 | 2018-08-16 |
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… | ||
| Whispers in Chaos: Searching for Weak Signals in Incidents | SREcon18 Americas | 2018-03-27 |
Research on an Etsy Cyber Monday outage shows slow personalized pages caused by CDN cache misses triggered by an HTTP 400 from a closed store referenced in a… | ||
| Ignites- The Five Dirty Words of CI | DevOpsDays Chicago 2017 | 2017-09-12 |
Claim: post‑mortems framed as linear CI tools fail — root cause analysis often yields eight “root causes” and is misleading. Replace five whys with systemic… | ||
| Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals | DevOpsCon 2017 Berlin | 2017-06-12 |
Argues that failures become learning only when incident response and systems capture what actually happened: concrete examples include Knight Capital losing… | ||
| "Failure" as Success: The Mindset, the Methods, and the Landmines | DevOpsCon 2017 Berlin | 2017-06-12 |
Compares DevOps operations to the National Airspace: FAA logs 138,000 operations per day, procedures live in a binder of Terps approach plates that encode… | ||
| ‘Failure’ as Success: The Mindset, the Methods, and the Landmines | DevOpsDays Rockies 2017 | 2017-04-10 |
Argues that success is not just lack of outages but how teams respond, and that the one controllable variable in complex systems is reaction. Cites Knight… | ||
| The Blameless Cloud: Bringing Actionable Retrospectives to Salesforce | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Salesforce rewires incident learning by replacing a heavyweight Wednesday meeting with weekly service reliability review sessions, coaching cloud teams, and… | ||
| Interview | Velocity Conference Santa Clara 2014 | 2014-06-24 |
Argues that productive post-mortems require separate facts from judgment rather than hunting a single root cause, citing aviation research that lists 191 root… | ||
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