This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
autor: Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum
Crisis Engineering w/special guests Layer Aleph
O tym podcaście
A podcast about resilience engineering and software.
Ever wondered why things on the internet break? Do you work in software and wish that you could have a Dear-Abby-Like call-in show that could answer your deepest questions about how to make your workplace suck less? We're here to help!
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- Crisis Engineering w/special guests Layer Aleph · 1 godz. 18 min · Sezon 4 Odcinek 2We spoke with the awesome folks at Layer Aleph about their book Crisis Engineering
- Handover Communications in Software Operations w/special guest Chad Todd · 51 min · Sezon 4 Odcinek 1We spoke with Chad Todd about his research in handover communications.
- The academic and the practical in resilience engineering · 47 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 9Aerobarrier is super cool if you want to check out how it works: https://glbipro.com/aerobarrier-2/ Colette isn’t drinking alcohol, it’s a delicious herbal mocktail by Casamara…
- Interviewing for Incident Analysis w/special guest John Allspaw · 1 godz. 0 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 8We chatted with John Allspaw about Naturalistic Decision Making, interviewing for incident analysis, and asked him to do a mock incident interview with us.
- Paper Club: Two Years Before the Mast w/special guest eric dobbs · 45 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 7Mitchell Hashimoto’s post on leaving Github: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github The Reddit post on Github’s availability historically (that we find…
- SRECon Americas 2026 recap · 55 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 6Colette and Clint talk through the highs and lows of SRECon Americas 2026, and what they learned.
- The 2025 DORA Report w/special guest Fred Hebert · 59 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 5We chatted with Fred about last fall's DORA report and what it means for those of us who are thinking about resilience and software engineering in the age of AI.
- Building and Revising Adaptive Capacity Sharing for Technical Incident Response with Beth Adele Long · 1 godz. 9 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 4The Keewenaw snow gauge that Colette mentioned is a tourist attraction. If you want to see where measurements are at for the season you can find them here…
- Outsourcing and Resilience · 42 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 3We answer a reader question about how to activate resilience when teams are far away from each other (organizationally and geographically)
- The Messy 9 and Coding with AI - A Panel Discussion · 1 godz. 43 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 2A panel discussion on how people actually use AI in their day-to-day software work, with special guests John Allspaw, Sheeri Cabral, Martin Smith and David Woods.
- Going Solid · 1 godz. 1 min · Sezon 3 Odcinek 1If you’re feeling like you need to do more to respond to our moment: Lots of place to donate to in the twin cities are listed here…
- The Year in Resilience w/special guest John Allspaw · 53 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 16Seriously though, can’t wait to gtfo of this year. Palisades fire links: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/anonymous-letter-demands-independent-palisades-fire-investig…
- Incident Status: On Hold w/special guest Will Gallego · 43 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 15Mentioned multiple times, Em Ruppe’s amazing talk on incident severity: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/ruppe We talk about the RIS Slack…
- Complex Systems and the Messy Nine w/special guests Dave Woods and John Allspaw · 1 godz. 8 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 14The writeup on the AWS outage from AWS themselves, if you haven’t seen it: https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ Dave’s department at OSU, Cognitive Systems Engineering…
- All the things about Incident Command · 37 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 13It’s Spamton G (not J) Spamton, Clint! Get hip to the game characters! https://deltarune.fandom.com/wiki/Spamton There are a couple of incident command trainers out there who…
- Root Cause Analysis vs. Resilience Engineering w/special guest Lorin Hochstein · 60 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 12A history of the 5 whys and root cause analysis from papers Some critiques of the 5 whys: From John Allspaw: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-infinite-hows/ From Alan J Card…
- First Stories/Second Stories · 53 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 11More robustness than resilience, but worth repeating that you should always check your earthquake go-bag: https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/blog/2019/how-to-make-an-earthquake-e…
- How (Not) to Introduce Resilience Engineering at Work with special guest Michelle Casey · 53 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 10Lorikeets are pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet You think Colette’s kidding about the kangaroo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjHVRHXbc8 The Mackinac…
- How long should you wait after an incident to do your retro? · 44 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 9Corn sweat is a real thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humidity-from-corn-sweat-intensifies-extreme-heat-wave-in-midwest-u-s/ Also, plugging Tajin here, because…
- Lund University - Academic Theory and Practice · 1 godz. 4 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 8A huge thanks to our panelists: John Allspaw Jed Needle Chad Todd RISF and TiF will host a live follow up to this episode on July 31st! You can sign up here…







