Staying Alive: Patterns for Failure Management from the Bottom of the Ocean | Ronnie Chen

h/t Jonathan Yu @jawnsy@mastodon.social who says

https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/114803028953613302a

A classic talk about systems thinking, as told through a story of ocean diving.

Some key observations:

1. Catastrophic failures in complex systems are the result of several smaller failures

2. An unused or untested safety system does not exist

3. Normalization of deviance is a natural human phenomenon

https://youtu.be/kW5_wkJJf3A by Ronnie Chen via DevOpsCon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5_wkJJf3A