There’s a new software reliability conference that just spun up called Software Should Work, and I had a chance to give a talk there. I took the opportunity to speak about one of my favorite topics: saturation. Here’s a recording of it.
Links from the talk
- The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology by Leslie Lamport
- The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that govern adaptive systems by David Woods
- April 2026 [Bluesky] Outage Post-Mortem by Jim Calabro (my post on this writeup)
- Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 by Laura Nolan (my post on this writeup)
- Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019 John Graham-Cumming (my post on this writeup)
- Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage by the Waymo team (my post on this writeup)
Surfing Complexity 