Incident Response and Disaster Recovery
Preparing for outages, running tabletop drills, and building resilience so engineering orgs recover quickly when things go wrong.
Episodes
- Preparing for the Worst: Tabletop Exercises, Unit Tests, and Everything In Between
TaskRabbit's overnight AWS region migration from us-west-1 to us-west-2, describing the months of preparation, detailed runbook, large war-room call,…
- Simplifying Tech Through Empathy and Understanding with Frank Bravo
Is joined by guest Frank Bravo, a Bay Area technologist who spent 30 years as CTO in local media, helping put a newspaper's full editorial content online…
- Setting the Tone: Building Trust Through Security
The role of CTOs in setting a security-minded culture and provide real-life anecdotes of security breaches and incidents. The conversation covers critical…
- Culture, Quality, and Tech Debt: Lessons from the Front Lines with Greg Conklin
Are joined by special guest Greg Conklin for a candid and insightful conversation on what it takes to build high-performing engineering teams. Drawing…
- Lessons from the Mountains: Retrospectives and the Secret Sauce of High Performance Teams
The art and impact of retrospectives in engineering teams. Drawing on their experiences in both software and high-stakes environments like mountain…