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At the end of the day, users trust us. Care about user safety, even if it's hard and slows us down.

Don't be a malware distribution vehicle. [fin] #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition w/ Evelina, Eric, Ines, & Caitie (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3tw2MYYT0Q

#alphago #qconnyc #qcon
July 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Slides for my #QConNYC keynote this morning on the end of Moore's Law -- and the ramifications for the future of enterprise computing: https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/no-moore-left-to-give-enterprise-computing-after-moores-law
No Moore Left to Give: Enterprise Computing After Moore's Law
No Moore Left to Give: Enterprise Computing After Moore's Law - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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November 3, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Gave @VividCortex's excellent #QConNYC conference swag to my seven-year-old -- who did not have exactly the reaction that I expected
November 3, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Many cool women at #QConNYC ... wish I'd signed up! There's @YiGeNaNa @jessitron @suksr @Indu_alagarsamy for example :)
November 17, 2024 at 10:45 PM
[fin] [ed: And that's the end of #QConNYC. This is your editor, out.]
January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The intention of the exercises was to have people physically, viscerally feel the experience of being oncall. "did you stop writing down numbers? I'm so sorry." #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Did people enjoy this? Verbal yesses [ed: except maybe not the person writing digits of pi.] We have choices about how we operate systems, and should be thoughtful. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
(1) and (3) are impossible, (2) is unlikely, and (5) is hard to achieve, so that just leaves (4). #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Providing feedback" is named and agreed with, and "observability" and "logical" are added too. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Other suggestions: "removing computer error", and "anti-fragility". @otterbook writes them down but notes he will disagree vigorously with all of them. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
And you can follow @micheletitolo for the rest of the talk livetweets!! https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/1012801044273926146 #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Taking audience suggestions for other principles -- someone suggests "removing human error" and the audience groans. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
... but we need to embrace ambiguity. We can treasure it and figure our way through things instead of having perfect clarity. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
[ed: a phone goes off, and @otterbook asks the rows to swap back to where they were before] #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
They're an expected part of the system.

Point 5: ambiguity. There's a fine line between resilience and ambiguity. Some think that it's important to understand as much as we can... #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Point 4: There's room for error. Some people think that error is bad and we should get it all out of the system. But to SREs, errors help us learn about the system. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Data's value isn't for us to expose to Cambridge Analytica, it's to help us figure out the lay of the land. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Point 3: data is crucial to resilience. It's a tool for cartography. Where are the pitfalls? How can we get from A to B? Are we where we want to be now? #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Inclusion is important as another part of resilience. We need to have the right people in the room. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
[ed: another alarm goes off. @otterbook asks two rows to switch seats] "faster, we're losing money, we have to migrate these jobs..." #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Point 2: interfaces. APIs are crucial, and APIs between people are critical. The error budget *is* an interface between people. We define up in advance, rather than coming into conflict over it. #QConNYC
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM