Software engineering responses to COVID-19, June 29, 2020
This is a dynamic interactive panel discussion with three industry thought
leaders exploring Resilience Engineering in action and observations on how tech organisations have responded to the current pandemic crisis. It discusses how people adjust operations and practices in the face of rapidly and radically changing circumstances.
The presenters
John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement. John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.
Dr. Richard Cook is a research scientist, physician, and pioneer in Resilience Engineering for safety in complex risk-critical worlds, and author of the seminal paper “How Complex Systems Fail” (video) as well as Behind Human Error (2010). Richard is presently a research scientist in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University and emeritus professor of healthcare systems safety at Sweden’s KTH. (publications)
Nora Jones is a dedicated and driven technology leader and software engineer who has previously worked with Netflix, Slack, and Jet.com. She truly believes that safety is pivotal with software development nowadays. She is a student in Human Factors & Systems Safety program at Lund University & co-wrote two O’Reilly books on Chaos Engineering.