void *: Incidents as Untyped Pointers
Where Complex Systems Fail A while ago I wrote a telegraphic piece entitled How Complex Systems Fail that, although written primarily for...
Velocity NYC 2017 and the Stella Report
Doctors David Woods and Richard Cook present the report of the Stella meeting and the first year of SNAFU Catchers work to the attendees...
The STELLA report gets attention at the 2017 Pager Duty Summit.
John Allspaw is headed to the New York Pager Duty Summit to present key concepts from the SNAFU Catchers Consortium Stella Report. Stop...
Part 1: brittle failure, blame-and-train, and more productive reactions to failure
A recent posting by cscareerthrowaway567 is remarkable and worth reading. [Thanks to John Allspaw for pointing this out to me!] Like many...
SNAFUCatchers Rendezvous
The SNAFU Catchers Consortium met in Brooklyn this week for a fascinating 2 day (plus a bonus halfer thanks to Blizzard Stella...
And the Oscar goes to... the wrong movie.
It will no doubt be a moment replayed for years, the mistake seen by millions around the globe, as the wrong movie was awarded the best...
A low tech solution to a high tech problem
Private use of drones for wedding photography, leak detection or socially maladjusted purposes has created new challenges for regulating...
Can "safe" technology actually make us less safe?
If you aren't in the race to produce the world's first self-driving car you obviously have been distracted by other things. Outside of...
Drs. Cook and Woods Deliver a Keynote Address at Velocity Conference
Standing before more than 1,500 coders, web developers and technology managers, Dr. Cook and Dr. Woods introduce the SNAFUcatchers...
SNAFUcatchers Formally Announced!
The SNAFUcatchers Consortium for Resilient Internet-Facing Business IT officially launches at Velocity NYC 2016