"GameDay"
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
Jesse Robbins (Amazon), Kripa Krishnan (Google), and John Allspaw (Etsy) discuss how they built organizations that deliberately trigger failure to get stronger: powering off data centers, running 96-hour disaster simulations, and transforming blame cultures into learning cultures.
“You can't choose whether or not you're going to have failures — they are going to happen no matter what — but you can choose in many cases when you're going to learn the lessons.”
Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome
Jesse Robbins on how to change engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, and exploit compelling events. The biggest barrier to operational improvement is not technology. It is organizational resistance.
“Don't fight stupid. Focus on where you can make more awesome.”
Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure
Eric Ries quotes Jesse Robbins in his Venture Hacks guide to implementing Five Whys at startups, linking GameDay's failure-as-learning philosophy to lean startup practice.
“Try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every one you spend in failure.”