This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

Episode 2 - Does Software Need Safety?

This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

Show Notes

We talk to the pioneer of resilience engineering in the software world John Allspaw about how he discovered this world, and we answer a reader question together: does software need safety? Correction: we thought this would be episode 3, but it ended up being 2, because of scheduling conflicts with guests... You can submit your questions at www.thisisfinepod.com ⁠[email protected]⁠

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