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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.

Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 26/02/2025

Holly smoke .. .I hadn't seen it. Now I can't unsee it.

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Adrian Hornsby @adhorn.me · 26/02/2025

That's not what I mean. I just think it isn't easy as that :)

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(last) Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback and for making me think :)

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(7/n) I'm not saying teams shouldn't be responsible, but I am just wondering if our traditional ideas about accountability need to evolve as these systems become more autonomous.

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(6/n) It's like trying to hold someone accountable for the weather. Yes, they can build the forecasting system, but at some point, the complexity makes understanding impossible.

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(5/n) But here's my struggle. As these AI systems get more complex and their decision-making more opaque, can we honestly say the teams fully understand what's happening anymore?

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(4/n) Your point about responsibility really got me thinking. While I love blameless postmortems too, the accountability question gets tricky with these systems. In theory, yes, the human teams should be responsible.

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(3/n) And good catch on the redundant "famous" - definitely missed that one in editing!

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(2/n) Yea, I should've been clearer about the difference between regular AIOps (where humans still make the final calls with AI help) and what I'm calling "meta-operators" (where the AI is actually making the decisions itself). Thanks for picking up on that while still following my main points!

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

(1/n) Thanks so much for the thoughtful feedback, Dave!

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Let me know how you like it or not please :)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 · 14/01/2025

Yes, really good piece indeed.

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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?

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

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

How long will the ai handle survive? :)

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

I like the handle! What happened to Ian.blockchain ?

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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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take care Ian. Hope you and your family are safe.

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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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"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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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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100% agree. I would add airports ... I always get massive headache at airport because of the duty free perfume section. Every. Single. Time. I don't understand how people work in such environment.

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

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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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