Busra Koken

Not active here anymore. Please find me on BlueSky, I would love to connect there: bsky.app/profile/busrak…

I wrote about three guiding lights I keep coming back to in resilience work. They’re drawn from experience, with a few stories in each section. Would love to know if you resonate. humansinsystems.com/blog/three-gui…

💌 New blogpost: Some of the most important things I’ve learned about resilience didn’t come from CPU metrics. They came from navigating the mess, with our users, and with my teammates. ++

it took me 4 years but i finally took the courage to write about my burnout. it was hell of an experience, but that hugely contributed to what i am doing today as vulnerable as it gets 💌 humansinsystems.com/blog/you-dont-…

Humans in Systems is live! 🚀 After a decade in SRE & engineering leadership, I’m now coaching, mentoring & consulting at the intersection of reliability, collaboration & resilience. If you care building better systems *and* better teams, let’s connect. humansinsystems.com

Woa it’s been a while since i posted here! Well, friends, after 10+ years in tech, i’m excited to announce that i'll start my own thing 🎉 bringing resilience, leadership, and systems together to help people and teams thrive. See more on Linkedin: linkedin.com/posts/busrakok…

The Amsterdam Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup at @datadoghq kicked off, first talk by @Cisco's Jeroen Vermeulen on using libpqxx, a C++ client library, to store in and retrieve from PostgreSQL fast 🏃‍♂️

@abilgegunduz Amsterdam’da maraton mu? 😍vakit olursa kahve icebilirizzz! 💃🏻

Geçen hafta yepyeni yolculuklara başladım. Hem sakatlık sonrası Muay Thai'a geri döndüm, hem 2024 Amsterdam Maratonu için bir koçla çalışmaya başladım, hem de yeni bir işte, ilk haftamdı. Pozisyon aynı ama yeni ve farklı bir yolculuk beni bekliyor. Uzaktan çalışanlar kervanına ben de katıldım, 3 yıl ofisten çalışınca, uzaktan çalışırken iş-hayat dengesi nasıl kuruluyordu, unutmuşum🤞🏻 Varsa tavsiyeleriniz ve paylaşmak istediğiniz tecrübeleriniz bunlardan birine dair öğrenmeyi çok isterim.

@sevikarakulak Ah thanks, i did not think of that. Yeah it is. Thank you 🫶

@busrakoken I think if you let know your company, you should be able to get your day back, as the Dutch work law backs it. Obvs it must be annoying to not being able to enjoy it, hope you feel better soon ❤️

Feel sad that i took the day off to enjoy a bunch of non-work related things, and i woke up sick this morning 🥲

We're growing our team! If you care about providing an excellent on-call experience, learning from incidents, and are interested in analyzing broader organizational challenges, come work with me and my wonderful team! We are fun. I think. 🤗 careers.datadoghq.com/detail/5688958…

A key to steady progress is prioritizing goals over moods. Whether you aim to get in shape, learn the guitar, or write a book, the question is not whether you feel like it today. It's who you want to become tomorrow. Enthusiasm fluctuates. Consistent action accumulates.

We discussed this in our team recently. Writing is a thinking exercise, don't worry about finding the perfect template for your write-up. Dive deep into your thoughts and start typing -rest will follow.

Note to self for next quarterly planning: go into this period as ✨rested✨ as possible. Otherwise everything feels harder than it actually is. (this applies to generally anything but this is my reality right now 🙈)

Zoom fatigue is not burnout. It’s boreout. New study: when meetings are virtual, we’re not overwhelmed—we’re understimulated. Cardiac measures show drowsiness, not stress. The antidotes are common sense but not common practice: fewer, shorter, more interactive online meetings.

I care about these talks so much because stories are what we learn from the most. I like that we don't keep them to ourselves but share them with the community. 🫶

Also check out another talk given by my awesome colleagues at recent SREcon EMEA about this. Especially also covering how we, humans, coordinated incident response. youtu.be/82Tsujs6Qm4?si…

Feeling so lucky to be working with amazing folks in an amazing culture of “learning from incidents”🔥 keynote at Kubecon with our largest incident story 🎉

✨Happy Friday!✨ I'd like to take a sec to debunk a popular myth about the "deploy on Fridays" movement. Many seem to think we mean everyone should be deploying code right up til quitting time, every Friday. This is not the point at all. This is NOT a great idea for most shops.

i’ve been experiencing lots of personal and professional growth recently, hence less activitiy here. This makes me think about how to interpret comfort zone in a way that actually helps people, and not pressure them. Something i’d love to talk more about in the furure.

the motto that keeps me on track: *choose your own challenges*. there's nothing more gratifying than learning and growing in the areas you're truly desire.