SREcon24 Americas - Real Talk: What We Think We Know — That Just Ain’t So

John Allspaw, Adaptive Capacity Labs

Dr. David Woods once said to me “We cannot call it a scientific field unless we can admit we’ve gotten things wrong in the past.” Do we, in this community, do that? Well-formed critique is critical for any field — including SRE — to progress.

I’d like to talk about a few ideas, assumptions, and concepts often talked about in this community but whose validity is rarely questioned or explored.

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