Contribution from J. Paul Reed
Presentation videos from this year’s REdeploy, a Resilience Engineering conference focused on the software development and operations industry, were recently posted. Held in San Francisco in mid-October, 2019 was REdeploy’s second year.
Resilience Engineering Association member J. Paul Reed launched the conference with Mary Thengvall to “explore the intersection of resilient technology, teams, and individuals” in 2018. While the software operations space is relatively familiar with reliability and robustness techniques, active resilience practices are fairly nascent in the space.
“We really wanted to create a space where practitioners could come together and explore this concept of resilience, not only from a software development and technological patterns perspective, but also in how teams respond to failure and incidents in the operations side of the software lifecycle,” Reed said. “And, because teams are made up of people, personal resilience techniques are important too.”
Topics ranged from how Amazon Web Services operates highly available web services, to a deep-dive exploration of “blamelessness,” so often discussed during incident retrospectives, to how individuals can build up their own adaptive capacity to deal with an ever-changing (and sometimes wildly so!) world, both in and out of work.
REA members will recognize some of the presenters, including the opening keynote from Dr. Richard Cook and a talk by Marisa Grayson. Casey Rosenthal also offered a keynote on Chaos Engineering. You can check out the rest of the videos here.
As for whether Reed will sign up for the repeat of REdeploy in 2020? “Stay tuned…“