John Goerzen is a staff engineer at Fastly, and an amateur pilot. In this episode, we talk about some of the parallels between aviation and IT, as it relates to risk management, incident response, and the mentalities that can lead to problems.  We discuss the concept of an accident chain; the idea that most incidents don't have a single cause, but a long list of contributing causes. We discuss the importance of blameless postmortems for improving how we respond to failures, and the human aspect of incident prevention.

Resources:
Video: Faulty Assumptions
NASA ASRS reports: Callback
Video series: AOPA Accident Case Studies
PDF: FAA Aeronautical Decision Making

Today's Guest:
John Goerzen
Blog: The Changelog
Mastadon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @jgoerzen

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In this episode of The Tiny DevOps Podcast, Jonathan talks with guest Patric Conant about an often-overlooked aspect of our technology stack: the physical infrastructure.  Patric talks about some common problems he sees, and some simple tips to make sure your team doesn't fall into the common trap of throwing the "infrastructure baby" out with the bathwater.

Resources:
The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V Aho
NMAP Network Scanning by Gordon Fyodor Lyon

Todays guest:
Patric Conant, @MirageComputing

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In this miniature episode, I talk with... myself about the reason this podcast exists.

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