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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 21/05/2025

Just Out! "Beyond Root Cause: A Better Approach to Understanding Complex System Failures" I'm excited to share my latest article, which explains why traditional root cause analysis and the 5 Whys approach fall short in complex systems. I hope you enjoy it! www.resiliumlabs.com/blog/beyond-...

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Beyond Root Cause: A Better Approach to Understanding Complex System Failures

Discover why traditional root cause analysis and 5 Whys frameworks fall short in complex systems. Learn practical alternatives and the 'Trojan Horse' approach to implement meaningful change in your or...

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 06/04/2025

Resilience Bites #9 - LinkedIn Rewind (week 14) is out! I've discussed a few key concepts, including Sherlock Holmes' "Dogs Not Barking", the tension between high standards and adaptability, and why sometimes "turning it off and on again" contains hidden wisdom. adhorn.me/posts/resili...

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Resilience Bites #9 - LinkedIn Rewind (week 14) — adhorn.me

Discover the latest insights, innovations, and discussions about resilience engineering. Stay ahead with Resilience Bites.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 24/02/2025

🚀🚀🚀New blog post! 🚀🚀🚀 I have been thinking a lot about AI meta-operators, which are AI agents that will manage our systems and make operational decisions. In this blog post, I am sharing some thoughts and asking questions. I hope you enjoy it! medium.com/the-cloud-ar... #AI

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When AI Makes the Call

Questions About Meta-Operators and System Responsibility

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 21/02/2025

🚀 New blog post out! 🚀 This post discusses the 70% problem with AI-generated code, Bainbridge's automation ironies, and what chaos engineering can teach us about managing complexity in the age of AI. I hope you enjoy it! Happy weekend! adhorn.medium.com/chaos-engine...

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Chaos Engineering in the Age of AI: Surfacing Hidden Complexity

The rise of AI in software development presents a fascinating paradox. While AI tools make it easier than ever to generate complex systems…

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 13/02/2025

In every system, something works. Rather than asking what's wrong and how to fix it, ask what's working and how to get more of it.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 30/01/2025

The best time to test your runbook is before the incident, not during it.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 16/01/2025

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 15/01/2025

“In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous.” ― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 09/01/2025

That is pretty scary.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 01/01/2025

Will 2025 finally mark the rise of the Chief Resilience Officer?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Right. The years and billions of dollars spent preparing are why Y2K didn’t “live up to the hype.” They *fixed* it. Before it happened. Which is good. Yes.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 26/12/2024

“Some problems are better evaded than solved.” Tony Hoare

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 26/12/2024

"There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors." Tony Hoare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ho...

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Tony Hoare - Wikipedia

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 21/12/2024

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 20/12/2024

New HUGE Launch - AWS FIS now supports networking actions on AWS Fargate!!!! Network latency, Network blackhole, and Network packet loss are ready to be used! Long awaited. I'm super happy to see this one out for the end of 2024! Have fun! aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

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Amazon ECS now supports network fault injection experiments on AWS Fargate - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon ECS now supports network fault injection experiments on AWS Fargate

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My second re:Invent talk is up! In this talk, I dive into the internals of thew new Aurora DSQL, looking at how we achieve each of the ACID properties, and highlight some of the decisions we made as we designed the product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGm...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL and its architecture (DAT427-NEW)

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 14/12/2024

Static stability. Where 'doing nothing' is actually the most productive response.

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Ricardo Sueiras @094459.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I have been doing an #amazon-q-advent over the past 12 days, and have daily Amazon Q Developer tips that I will publish until Christmas Day. Today's post - dev.to/aws/amazon-q...

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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.12 Mastering in-line prompts

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate...

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 12/12/2024

Don’t fear what you know about your systems. Fear what you don’t know!

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 09/12/2024

Can you imagine if people acted like most software libraries? You’d ask them a question, and sometimes, they’d just stand there, waiting for an answer forever. Set explicit timeouts folks.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 09/12/2024

There are two kinds of developers: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say "There are two kinds of developers: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say"...

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The fourth and last in my series of blog posts on our new Aurora DSQL database is up! This time, we're looking at what happens during network partitions, and how we preserve consistency, availability, and durability. Check it out: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 06/12/2024

During @werner.social keynote at #reinvent, I was secretly hoping he would bring in the crew from that video , taking down a Jeep and putting it back together in under 5 minutes. That is Simplexity at its best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnLZ...

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Crew tears apart and rebuilds Jeep in minutes

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Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Technology is evolving to tackle humanity's hardest problems. From clean energy innovations and disaster preparedness to tools to fight disinformation, success now means making a positive impact. Read my tech predictions for 2025 and beyond: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/12/tech...

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Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond

We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These ar...

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 04/12/2024

You want 99.999% availability for every services within your application? Are you sure? Because last I checked, not all services are created equal, folks. Know what really matters most to your users and business.

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Deepak @mndoci.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

One of the best part about being part of this organization is working with a team that's constantly innovating. This includes a team of scientists that continue to equip the Q Dev Agent with more capabilities, e.g. new tools to search, navigate, understand, and modify code with precision.

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story - Marc's Blog

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 03/12/2024

#reInvent This one is awesome! An active-active distributed architecture, Aurora DSQL ensures strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. All that in a #serverless package. aws.amazon.com/fr/rds/auror...

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Serverless distributed SQL databases with active-active high availability – Amazon Aurora DSQL – AWS

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.

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Pascal MARTIN 😶‍🌫️ @pascal-martin.fr · 03/12/2024

🤩 Amazon Aurora DSQL 😍 Whhoo 🎉🎉🎉 ⬇️ Ca, c'est une des grosses annonces de cette année, pour moi ! 🤔 Et vu pendant combien de temps il a introduit le sujet, c'est en effet un gros truc, et pas que pour moi ^^ Werner parlera plus dans deux jours de "comment ça marche" ;-)

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 03/12/2024

Synchronization is for clocks, not tasks. Embrace jitter.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 02/12/2024

Good morning Vegas. How are you doing today? #reInvent

View of the Las Vegas giant Ferris wheel called High Roller at sunrise.

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Niko Virtala @nikovirtala.io · 02/12/2024

now, we can share *any* VPC resource over AWS PrivateLink! *this* is PrivateLink the way we always wanted it! 🤯🤩 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

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AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 01/12/2024

And so the journey to #reinvent starts now. See you there!

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 01/12/2024

Stop lying to yourself. Past performance isn’t a predictor of future performance.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 30/11/2024

In one of my previous companies, we had a fitness competition. The team with more than 10k steps per day would win a cash bonus. Teams were so eager to win that some even put fitness trackers on their dogs to make sure they got 10k steps per day. Talk about getting caught up in surrogate metrics!

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 30/11/2024

Pay attention to what isn't there, not just what is.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 30/11/2024

The most important lessons aren't taught in books.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 28/11/2024

Too good not to repost.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 28/11/2024

#reinvent hack. Set your LinkedIn Profile as a QR code. Make that QR code your phone's background. There, no need to carry business cards. One tap on the phone and you are good to go. You are welcome.

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Join me! This one is sure to be a lot of fun, especially if you enjoy a technical deep dive.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 28/11/2024

To my dear friends in the US. May your Thanksgiving be full of peace, love and joy.

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AJ Stuyvenberg @ajs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A new-launch session hosted by Marc Brooker has just popped up in the re:Invent session catalog. Seats are still available, and I'm sure you don't want to miss it.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 27/11/2024

Every time I say yes to talk at #reInvent I underestimate how panic I will get... every.single.time Will I ever learn?

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Sathyajith Bhat @sathyabh.at · 27/11/2024

my Reliability and Resilience Attendee guide complements your suggestions well registration.awsevents.com/flow/awseven...

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 27/11/2024

AWS #reInvent2024 is less than a week away. Here are some of the must-see sessions on the topic of #Resilience. 🧵

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 26/11/2024

MTTR is like that friend who always insists you split the dinner bill equally, even though you just had a side salad while they ordered the $50 steak and a bottle of wine.

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