I recently woke up one morning and, bleary eyed, grabbed a cold bottle of iced tea from the fridge. It’s my small allowance of caffeine intake for the day and I was glad for the foresight to pop it in the night before to chill. That’s one of those handy misconceptions we tend to use, thinking of refrigerators as “adding… Read more →
How many maybes do you need until you get someone to be empathetic to a situation? It’s no surprise when we discuss failure modes of organizations, typically from the outside, that we can spot the smaller failure modes. We’re looking backwards, the benefit of hindsight in full display and with all the time we need. We’re not seeing the hurdles… Read more →
I firmly believe as an industry we are in a fragile state. That statement certainly carries vague, fortune teller vibes (how do you prove that, or disprove it, for that matter?). It may be akin to saying the end of the world is here, just you wait – except we see failures in our system all the time, and so… Read more →
A useful task in a software engineer’s career, notably when looking towards a promotion, is outlining what steps in a career look like. How can you be ready to grow into a new position or take a bigger lead in work if you’re unsure what that means? Similarly, when guiding folks who are up and coming, what better way than… Read more →
Blame awareness only works if you work towards blame awareness with all incidents, not just the ones that affect yo Read more →
Main Takeaway: Adaptability can only come from expertise, and expertise is developed only through experience. Quite often, that’s failure and even the expectation of failure (gamedays, chaos engineering experiments, architecture reviews, etc.). Also, lightsabers are cool. I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to write about lightsabers. During my lunch breaks I’ve been diving into some Tested.com videos, in particular… Read more →
External recruiters, also referred to as third party, contingency, or agency recruiters, differ from internal recruiters as they work for a placement firm rather than a tech company directly. They still want well qualified candidates to put in front of an interview panel, but lacking the direct integration, they instead maintain a network of companies that are looking for candidates.… Read more →
Internal recruiters, sometimes called in-house or corporate recruiters, are hired by and work exclusively for the company you’re applying to. They’ll understand the needs of the specific business closely, as they’re developing a tighter relationship being on “the inside”. Along with this, they may have a bit of a marketing aspect to their work as well to help sell the… Read more →
Job postings will likely be your first step towards getting any in-depth info about a role. You may have colleagues who can give you inside info or the company may be well known enough that you can get an idea of what you may do, but that may not give you as much about specifics. More often than not, you’re… Read more →
One of the fallacies about our collective approach to retrospectives, incident reviews, and post mortems is the belief that the entire process is a rational machine. Pour in a curated series of events, turn the handle, and out pop all of the action items that need completing to fix the world. I can’t speak to every industry that practices Resilience… Read more →