John Allspaw
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Real Talk: What We Think We Know — That Just Ain’t So | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Argues that several SRE assumptions fail when tested: the lines of code metric is discredited (Capers Jones, 1995); a widely quoted 85% change claim (Gartner… | ||
| The Future of above-the-line Tooling | SREcon22 Americas | 2022-03-14 |
Claim: tooling that represents and coordinates human work above the line is currently sparse but expanding rapidly, while classic observability tools like… | ||
| Workshop: Fundamentals of Joint Cognitive Systems | RubyConf 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Argues that design details decide success: specifies joint cognitive systems as shared human–machine sensemaking, shows disk-alerts from a nagios default… | ||
| Ceci N'est Pas un CPU Load | SREcon21 | 2021-10-12 |
Claim: digital systems lose the clean, probeable input→output plumbing of analog electronics, so common observability tools mislead. Shows a relay punch‑card… | ||
| DevOps Ten Years After: Review of a Failure with John Allspaw and Paul Hammond | SREcon21 | 2021-10-12 |
Ten years on, the claim that teams ran continuous deployment and even developers deploy their own code is defended with concrete shifts: configuration… | ||
| Hard Problems We Handle in Incidents but Aren't Recognized | SREcon21 | 2021-10-12 |
Identifies four concrete incident activities—diagnostic work, therapeutic actions, recruiting people, and status reporting—and shows how familiar tools… | ||
| Can Resilience Engineering be sufficiently described in 5...? | DevOpsDays NYC 2020 | 2020-03-03 |
Asserts the title question is answered: “no” — resilience engineering is a 20-year multidisciplinary field now being applied to software, not reducible to high… | ||
| In the Center of the Cyclone: Finding Sources of Resilience | REdeploy 2018 | 2018-08-16 |
Argues that resilience is actual human work — sustained adaptive capacity — located above the drawn system boundary in people’s mental models rather than in… | ||
| Speaker Panel - Day 1 | REdeploy 2018 | 2018-08-16 |
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… | ||
| Taking Human Performance Seriously in Software | DevOpsDays Seattle 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
Argues that outages are cognitive problems not just code problems, using line of representation to show operators act on keyhole views of systems and cognitive… | ||
| O'Reilly Velocity Conference 10 Year Anniversary | Velocity 2017 | 2017-06-19 |
A 2006 blog post claims operations as the new secret sauce, predicting developers run on others infrastructure and the role mix of code and ops shifts. The… | ||
| Seeing the Invisible: Discovering Operations Expertise | Velocity Conference Amsterdam 2015 | 2015-10-28 |
Argues that expertise comes from studying everyday successful work rather than failures, based on a Lund University human factors master’s project and field… | ||
| Seeing the Invisible: Discovering Operations Expertise | Velocity Conference New York 2015 | 2015-09-28 |
Argues that understanding operations expertise requires studying everyday work not just failures, drawing on a masters in Human Factors and System Safety at… | ||
| Interview | Velocity Conference Santa Clara 2014 | 2014-06-24 |
From the 2014 Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, CA: John Allspaw, conference co-chair and VP of Tech Operations for Etsy, sits down to discuss the guidelines… | ||
| John Allspaw's AMA | Velocity Europe Conference 2013 | 2013-11-13 |
Etsy runs roughly 40–60 deploys a day while deliberately decoupling code rollout from schema and infra changes, using Chef to manage the infrastructure… | ||
| What is DevOps? | GOTO Chicago 2013 | 2013-04-23 |
Defines DevOps as a cultural and professional movement — an abstraction for respectful collaboration of domain experts rather than a product, team, role or… | ||
| Opening Remarks | Velocity 2011 | 2011-06-14 |
Announcements cover logistics and surprises: conference keynotes are live streaming the Keynotes and all breakouts are being recorded for later access; an… | ||
| Steve Souders & John Allspaw interviewed at Velocity 2011_2 | Velocity 2011 | 2011-06-14 |
Announces that the HTTP Archive moves under the Internet Archive non‑profit with sponsorship from O'Reilly, Google, Mozilla, New Relic, Dynatrace, StrangeLoop… | ||
| Steve Souders & John Allspaw interviewed at Velocity 2011_ 1 | Velocity 2011 | 2011-06-14 |
Conference highlights include a live demo of Google Instant, a Facebook presentation about custom hardware and efficiency, and the debut of four browser… | ||
| 10+ Deploys Pe | Velocity 2009 | 2009-06-22 |
Flickr runs >10 deploys per day by automating infrastructure, keeping code and configs in a single SVN repo, and using a one-step build plus one-step deploy… | ||
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