Published inFAUN — Developer Community 🐾·PinnedMoon Landing AnniversaryList of SRE Lessons from the Lunar Landings — This week is the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing — Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched on July 16th 1969, landed on the Moon on July 20th and returned safely to Earth on the 24 of July. …DevOps5 min readDevOps5 min read
Nov 14What kind of Site Reliability Engineer was Sherlock Holmes?Holmes as a role model for SREs As humans, we learn from others — what are the good things to and what are the bad things to avoid. As professionals, one of the ways we improve ourselves is by finding good role models to emulate. …DevOps4 min readDevOps4 min read
Oct 4A Nobel prize for… Observability?Observability is a winner! On the 3rd of October 2023 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for what they described as having “demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be…DevOps4 min readDevOps4 min read
Jul 20July is an auspicious monthIBM, the Moon landing, Artificial Intelligence, and watsonx July is an auspicious month. Named for Julius Caesar, one of the greatest generals and statesmen of all time, the first full month of summer marks many national Independence Days across the globe. July was the first full month of operations by…Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
May 29How can you land 5 kilometers above the Moon?The near success and crash of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 In April of 2023 the Japanese space exploration company ispace attempted to land the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 on the Moon. …Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
May 2Is there such a thing as a system that’s too reliable?NASA’s Voyager Will Do More Science With New Power Strategy — The year 1977 was a landmark for the computer and hi-tech industry. Revolutionary systems appeared, ranging from the first affordable and practical home computers like the Commodore PET, the Apple II, and the TRS-80 to the first VMS system — the VAX-11/780 “super-minicomputer”. …Sre7 min readSre7 min read
Mar 23Elementary, My Dear SRESRE Lessons from Sherlock Holmes — Introduction. Inspired by my recent SRECon2023 Americas talk, I’m going to make a digression from my usual space exploration articles and discuss some lessons we can learn from the master detective Sherlock Holmes. After all, Holmes solved crimes using tools such as magnifying glasses…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Published inFAUN — Developer Community 🐾·Jul 11, 2022Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to beginSuccess through Reliability — Webb Lesson 5 — On July 12th 2022, after six months of deployment and testing, NASA will host a press conference and present the initial results of the James Webb Space Telescope. …Sre8 min readSre8 min read
Jun 30, 2022My IBM CIO team welcome boxI recently transferred to a new role in IBM, as a Site Reliability Engineer architect in the office of the CIO. While this isn’t the first time I’ve changed jobs within IBM, it is the first time it’s been a complete break from my previous job and former colleagues. I…IBM3 min readIBM3 min read
Jun 14, 2022Known Unknowns —Webb Struck by Meteoroid!Success through Reliability — Webb Lesson 4 — If it bleeds, it leads — and nothing bleeds like a potential crisis in a 10 billion dollar space telescope which has not yet started working! Last week NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope had been struck by a meteoroid which (if you only skimmed media headlines) “struck…Technology8 min readTechnology8 min read
