This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
Colette Alexander and Clint ByrumA podcast about resilience engineering and software.
Ever wondered why things on the internet break? Do you work in software and wish that you could have a Dear-Abby-Like call-in show that could answer your deepest questions about how to make your workplace suck less? We're here to help!
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Email us at: thisisfine.softwarepodcast@gmail.com
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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 35 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||
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The new website is live! thisisfinepod.comYou can find John Allspaw at Adaptive Capacity Labs: www.adaptivecapacitylabs.comMike McGill, the skateboarder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McGillAnnie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, referenced by ou... more
Mitchell Hashimoto’s post on leaving Github: mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-githubThe Reddit post on Github’s availability historically (that we find questionable): www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1rnvhs9/githubs_historic_down... more
Colette’s talk at SRECon intro: www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/alexanderClint’s talk at SRECon intro: www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/byrumDan Slimmon is an excellent engineer (per Clin... more
You can find the 2025 DORA Report here: dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/Read more of Fred’s work/opinions here: ferd.ca/If you want to know more about Lund’s Human Factors and Systems Safety program, you can read here: www.... more
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The show centers on resilience engineering in software, with frequent deep dives into incident response, safety learning from outages, and the socio-technical aspects of reliability. Episodes blend practical frameworks (naturalistic decision making, adaptive capacity, and RCA vs resilience analysis) with real-world experiences from outages, AI tooling in engineering, and organizational change. Guests range from renowned resilience thinkers to practitioners, offering both theory and hands-on guidance for building durable systems, improving incident workflows, and aligning leadership, culture, and engineering practice. Notable strengths include a clear emphasis on learning over blame, a willingness to challenge traditional incident management... more
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4. Beth Adele Long
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6. Sheeri Cabral
7. Dr. David Woods
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