Just published a revised account of how I used Deep Listening to start up the talk on improvisation and Joint Activity during incidents, at SRECon23 Americas.
This was on the Learning From Incidents website, but it is gone. So I updated and expanded my story.
#SRE #IncidentResponse #JointActivity #Improvisation #AdaptiveCapacity #Resilience #Reliability #SRECon #LearningCulture
Very excited that I'll be speaking at SRECon in Seattle this year! My talk title is "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" (naturally), and I'm speaking on Wednesday March 25 at 11:55.
See the full program here!

SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation.
The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits
A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖
https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/the-computer-wants-to-lose-your-data-bonus-bits/
My #SREcon talk – The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data – is now up!
Lots of in-the-weeds details on how databases achieve durability and how small mistakes can turn into big problems.