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New Fresh Groove
metamorphosis my universe
Colonization of the Mind
Metered LLMs cannot engage in learning like Open Source communities can
Tuning to Experiential Learning
How I led SRECon23 Americas in song
Scale is Step by Step
John Cage from poetry to databases
Deserts as Averages
I was thinking today about the way
Architecture for Flow and Incidents
Susanne Kaiser on building adaptive networks
Book Review: Babel
Rebecca Kuang’s epic about AI that isn’t about AI
Blocking for Siloes
dividing sides can lead to ruin
Am I developer?
Am I SRE?
TDG and decisionmaking in SRE
A short review of John Schmitt’s Mastering Tactics
Resilience on Rattlesnake Mountain
a story of failure
Connective Labor in SRE
The resilience is the humans!
Fitting Work Together
Platforms for success in reliability
Finding Flow
Physical triggers for mental acuity
To Document, or not, is that the question?
Can the mere presence of a document lead to learning?
My Indespensible SRE Book List
Five resources for Learning how to SRE
Memory Phases Skips
Performance tuning neurodivergent memory traits.
Root Cause as Alignable Difference
We can use the place we disagree as a fulcrum for change.
Bring it on!
Adopting the curious mindset
Everybody has a song
Contrasting vocal improvisation in the music of John Cage and Pauline Oliveros.
About
Matt Davis is a musician that finds himself in the cyclone of managing socio-technical systems in a fast-paced digital world.
Rivers of Opposites
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The Tao of Blamelessness
Juxtaposing the faces of Blameless Culture
Response Conductor: the new IC?
As part of my job as SRE Advocate, I am responsible for our “Continuous Improvement” and “Applied Resilience Engineering” programs.
DJ
Sets # The Collective # A three-hour live DJ set for The Collective weekly event (held at Matador Cantina and then Front Street / Back Alley, Fullerton CA).
Information Density: an Ictus of Form and Structure
We have been working on Service Level Objectives (SLO) at my work.
Song Cycle Kodachrome
Room Music # An Oaken Table with Oaken Chairs
IDM DevOps
Sometime the 1990’s, a music term surfaced to describe a burgeoning style of electronic music.
Seeking Solace through Biography
After I completed my undergraduate music degree at Virginia Tech, I stayed in Blacksburg for another year because I had no idea what to do with my life.
The Emergent Intuition Engineer
Excellence in All the Arts # When I took the SAT in high school, I didn’t study.
Reflections on Ambiguity Groove
Cross-cutting cleavages of terminology between art and science show up daily my work in socio-technical systems.
Practice of Practice Gamelan
Part of the trepidation of being on-call is encountering unfamiliar emergency scenarios where we are surprised by suddenly not knowing how to do our jobs.
Improvisation
My unorganized list of resources that connect resilience and improvisation through theatre, music, sound, teamwork, and technology.
Topamaximum Sound
One Month Before SCaLE # A virus had just begun its spread.
Put A Brain Pin On It
Today I was able to re-orient myself quickly to a task through what I am now calling a Brain Pin.
Craque-Mod Noise Toaster
Why Synth DIY?
Music in Resilience
Consider a jazz band you’ve heard or seen live, or really any type of music where improvisation plays an important role.
KnobbyBrute
It’s 909 day so it’s time for a synth post!
Anti-Bias of Listening Deeply
Getting around cognitive biases (like “hindsight is 20/20” or a confirmation you expect) is akin to Listening Deeply.
Musical City Techno
Cicada, cricket, grasshopper, frog.
Meander Sonor Ode
(a listening deeply gift from the urban inside)
Music for WorkCats
I have a few Slacks (as in chats, not pants) with #music and #jams channels where I feel obligated to post music I find good.
Meta Workshop Jam
Walking late one afternoon after a day deep in Cognitive Systems and Resilience Engineering workshops, chatting with one of the eminent researchers in the field, the conversation circled around common ground in joint activity and sociotechnical systems sharing qualities with music ensembles.
Pickles for Adam
(on the occasion of our meeting and bridge crossing)
MusiCirTechUs
Plenty of people who work in technology are musicians.
Weirdness of Experiment
My job in ops has always been to keep things running.
To Build or To Buy, That is the Contradiction.
It’s dead simple.
Living 4’33”
I haven’t experienced Mute’s STUMM433 release yet, it’s not due out until May.
So You Want 10 Albums?
Ok Bob.