Episode #35: Interview with John Allspaw

Date recorded: November 12, 2021 Show Description: Today we welcome John Allspaw. John is an engineering leader and  researcher with over 20 years of experience in building and leading  teams engaged in software and systems engineering. He is a co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs, LLC. Previously, he was  Chief Technology Officer at Etsy. He has also worked at Flickr,  Friendster, InfoWorld, Salon, Genentech, Volpe National Transportation  Center, and a bunch of other places as a consultant from time to time. John has spent the last decade bridging insights from Human Factors,  Cognitive Systems Engineering, and Resilience Engineering to the domain  of software engineering and operations. His publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning  (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps  Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per  Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement. He holds a Master’s degree in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University. Where to find John: LinkedIn Twitter Learn more about NDM: NaturalisticDecisionMaking.org Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Where to find hosts Brian Moon and Laura Militello: Brian’s website Brian’s LinkedIn Brian’s Twitter Laura’s website Laura’s LinkedIn Laura’s Twitter