John Allspaw
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
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Uses NorthFace Surge backpack
iPhone and iPad for traveling, and a NorthFace Surge backpack.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Uses Mesa Boogie Maverick
A 1978 Ibanez Artist EQ, a Takamine ESN40C, an MXR distortion+, a Keeley Compressor, and a Mesa Boogie Maverick are my other tools. :)
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Liked Ashgate Resilience Engineering series
A dream setup for me is a 27" monitor (anything bigger is a pain for me), a well-designed chair, and an internet connection. The entire Ashgate Resilience Engineering series. Anything else is ancillary.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
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Loved Awk
The most powerful tools I wield continue to be: grep, awk, sed, tcpdump, and strace/ktrace/truss. Call me old, but they've never failed me and feel like comfortable and familiar tools.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Loved tcpdump
The most powerful tools I wield continue to be: grep, awk, sed, tcpdump, and strace/ktrace/truss. Call me old, but they've never failed me and feel like comfortable and familiar tools.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Uses Chef
Things I use every day are: Evernote, Omnigraffle, vi, git, svn, ssh, Chef, Firefox, and Adium.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Uses Evernote
Things I use every day are: Evernote, Omnigraffle, vi, git, svn, ssh, Chef, Firefox, and Adium.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Loved Logitech mouse
The Logitech mouse I've had in my bag since 1999, which feels like a comfortable hammer in my hand.
usesthis.com 14 Oct 2011
Loved Sony MDR V600
Where they publish
x.com @allspaw Short posts on resilience engineering and incident analysis.
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- @editingemily (forwarding without comment) 28 Mar 2026
- I'm actually talking about this topic alongside others right now... https://t.co/ylXNc2d5Un (or https://t.co/iNqKYeHAge) 10 Jul 2025
- Meaningful learning from incidents requires expertise that most organizations do not have — but these skills can be learned! We're getting a head start on 2025 with a workshop series on Incident Analysis. 20 Nov 2024 adaptivecapacitylabs.com
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- Post-incident review meetings have much more going on than most people are aware of. https://t.co/gMp4VpFQPT #LFI #LearningFromIncidents 17 Mar 2024
- Nice work, @mononcqc - you nail the best parts here… 25 Sept 2023 ferd.ca
- OH: "Nobody ever got fired for quoting the DORA report." 15 Aug 2023
- "...the process is inherently a social one, people learn how the organization responds to events, what tensions exist (between individuals, teams, management, etc.), which topics are acceptable for discussion and which ones are forbidden, how power dynamics play out..." 👇 28 Jul 2023
- "It all started at Three-Mile Island" - episode 1 of @ri_cook's Cognitive Work Studies seminar 18 Jul 2023 youtube.com
- Reminder 10 Jun 2023 whoownsmyavailability.com
- Some songs remain the same. LLM enthusiasts might consider which challenges are genuinely new, and which have been worked out for a long time already. 21 Apr 2023
- And, opinions can *be* data. 14 Mar 2023
- (from the archives) What "dark debt" is about 13 Mar 2023 medium.com
- I'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from incidents, this is such an exemplar: 6 Mar 2023 youtube.com
- My time at #LFIConf23 was similar to a great wedding reception in that I got too little time to talk with too many super people. Regardless, it was excellent! 19 Feb 2023
- Organizations don’t learn, people do. 11 Feb 2023
- I paid zero attention to tweets about the FAA NOTAM outage today. Speculation from a distance and hindsight-driven attempts at being insightful in these situations are never worth the cost on attention. 12 Jan 2023
- Seems like another time for a reminder 12 Jan 2023
- Real progress has some bits that can feel frustrating. That’s how you can tell it’s actually progress. 10 Jan 2023
- You really ought to read this. 13 Dec 2022
- Hi @MTA this UX is misleading. The turnstile didn’t take @OMNY_Info but *did* allow entry via regular MetroCard. “NO ENTRY” is wrong. 1 Dec 2022
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