Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw

OVERVIEW:
Resilience Engineering is both a community of researchers as well as an interdisciplinary field of study. Continuous delivery can be seen as a source of what the RE community would call “sustained adaptive capacity.” John Allspaw joins us to introduce the audience to what this means (in real terms, not academic) and hopefully open up new lines of dialogue and inquiry about how these “systems” work. It’s time to take human performance seriously in software, and this is a step in that direction.

SPEAKER BIO:
John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments: biotech, government, online media, social networking, and e-commerce. 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 SVP of Infrastructure and Operations and then CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.

SCHEDULE

6:30pm: meet, greet & eat

7:00 (ish) pm: main presentation, followed by a healthy Q&A

7:15 pm: doors close to new-entrants - so make sure to arrive before this time

SPONSORS + VENUE:
LiveNation
7060 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028

PARKING + ARRIVAL

Please park in the underground garage (entrance on Sycamore just south of Hollywood Blvd) and be sure to bring your ticket in with you so that we may ensure we validate it for you.

Take the elevator up to the lobby (“L”) and check-in at the table.