Alex Elman (he/him)

Call for participation for @SREcon 25 Americas is now out! usenix.org/conference/sre… Joint Cognitive Systems is even mentioned in the call! How cool is that?

In remembrance of the late @ri_cook (August 31, 2022). adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2022/09/12/ric…

It's happening. Join us for the live premiere of Kyle Kingsbury's talk from #SD24 (“Jepsen 15: What Even are Transactions?”). Wednesday, August 28 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET youtube.com/watch?v=ecZp6c…

While this week's storm was the largest in two decades, there have been much stronger storms. The Disturbance storm time (Dst) index May 2024: -412 nT Nov 2003: -422 nT Mar 1989: −589 nT May 1921 (estimated): -800 to -1000 nT Sep 1859 Carrington event (est.): -850 to -1750 nT

The modern tech revolution is just three ultraviolet lithography machines in a trench coat.

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Join me on Thursday, January 25 for a webinar on Chaos Engineering. Covering: fundamentals of Chaos Engineering, strategies for successful implementation, how to navigate common adoption challenges, and measuring success. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ChaosEngineering

Learning from what goes well: ⁦@HorsleyCarl⁩ ⁦@picudoc13⁩ ⁦@LfEcommunity⁩ ⁦@Kevin_Fong⁩ Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

We're excited to announce Jeli has been acquired by @pagerduty 📟❤️ Jeli is made up of folks who have been carrying pagers our entire careers. Joining forces w/ PagerDuty gives users an all-in-one #incidentmanagement solution - from response to analysis. jeli.io/blog/connectin…

Today is the day! Talk proposals for SREcon24 Americas are due today, Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT. View the CFP and send in your submission now: bit.ly/sre24amscfp #srecon

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The fact that the CEO of OceanGate was in the submarine is a reminder that we can’t tell when someone deliberately takes an excessive risk (the stereotypical sloppy engineer or greedy exec) versus someone whose risk estimate is poorly calibrated (underestimating the risk).

A fabulous paper about the pioneer @ri_cook. researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you’re doing action items, focus on the quality over the quantity!

First up on the resilience track is our host @v_hue_g qconnewyork.com/presentation/j…

Did you know that, taking into account relative weight, a gerbil could outdrink several elephants? My latest on the boozie-suzies of the animal kingdom for @NautilusMag

The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Four Concepts of Resilience. Rebound Robustness Graceful Extensibility Sustained Adaptability researchgate.net/publication/27…

"Software will eat the world," Marc Andreesen said in 2011. Now in 2023, it's "AI will eat the world." And Andreesen is investing in it. A16Z's recent AI investments 👇

@QuantaMagazine That’s because AI isn’t human. It doesn’t understand. You can’t “teach” AI you can train and refine its models. We should stop anthropomorphizing this technology.

AI still has a hard time grasping humanlike concepts like analogies. How can we teach it something even more abstract, like truthfulness? quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-m…

AI is not going to exponentially self-improve and destroy the world. ChatGPT is pure mimicry powered by scores of wage-based workers helping refine and tune the language model, “We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it” nbcnews.com/tech/innovatio…