#TechDebt isn't something you "clean up".
It's something you inherit.

Old budgets.
Old decisions.
Old survival strategies.
(Patterns go brrr.)

I rewrote my tech-debt essay and published it on #Substack.
It's about why planning feels like necromancy,
why teams repeat failure modes,
and how language becomes infrastructure.

If you've ever thought
"this technically works, but something’s off":
this is for you.

👉 Tech Debt Isn't Bad Code—It's Encoded Legacy Patterns
📎 https://systemicengineering.substack.com/p/tech-debt-and-encoded-legacy-patterns

#SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #HumanSystems #SystemsThinking

Reliability.
Consistent results under load.

#SiteReliabilityEngineering.
..

Your team is a #DistributedSystem.
Language is the transport layer.
And truth is local.
(Site.)

#TechDebt slows down delivery.
Decisions are unowned.
And people burn out.
(Reliability.)

Divergent realities are a primary (in)variant of human systems.
Linguistic precision counters entropy accruing ambiguity.
And coherence is regulative.
(Engineering.)

..

Intrigued?
I write about language, technology and #HumanSystems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/trauma-awareness/

#SystemicEngineering #SocioTechSRE #SREforHumans #SRE

Agents enter the room.
Quick! What do you do?
..
(Don't look at me.)

Agents are non-embodied actors in human systems.
Agents receive context as input.
Agents decide, execute, loop.
Agents reduce complexity.
Until the END.

Who pays the embodied cost of AI-driven sense-making?
And why is it never the systems that scale it?

I write about language, technology and human systems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/who-invited-the-agent-oh-god-smith-will-suffice/

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #SiteReliabilityEngineering #Agents #AI #AIEthics #AI

Building Infrastructure Resilience on AWS: Lessons from Real-World Outages

https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/infrastructure-resilience-aws/

#AWS
#CloudResilience
#InfrastructureReliability
#SiteReliabilityEngineering
#DistributedSystems
#SoftwareArchitecture

Navigate modern cloud complexities! ☁️ Learn from engineers at @CarGurus, @MongoDB & @Google at #InfoQDevSummit Boston (June 9-10) on reliability & scaling.

➡️ Get actionable insights: https://bit.ly/4m3yiR7
#SiteReliabilityEngineering #CloudInfra #Scalability

#Fedihired

I'm still looking. I'm still at the #VA but I've lost: 2 data engineers, 1 system engineer, 1 cybersecurity engineer, my contracting manager (last friday, no notice) and our director just announced retirement.

I've been applying everywhere for relevant roles. Even in 2021, I had a reply response of around 20:1 . Now, ive put in probably 200. I've got nothing. (well, thats not true. weapons manufacture keeps pinging. no way no how)

Im looking for #cloud #systemsengineering #sitereliabilityengineering #cybersecurity #systemarchitect

DM and I'd be happy to send my resume or apply at a role you suggest.

Aside: stuff like this is why I think I'm in this situation. Basically, fake/AI resumes are drowning the market. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/fake-job-seekers-use-ai-to-interview-for-remote-jobs-tech-ceos-say.html

I saw this on HN this morning. And it seems terrible for everyone affected, well, except for the fake/AI users with batch apply scripts. Also explains LinkedIN jobs "submitted 1h ago, over 100 applied". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631384

A year and change in and i made my first prod outage! Yay large DNS TTL's! It was my fault for not realizing it beforehand but .. sucks so much.

#SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #sysadmin