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Useful Links: Trade-offs Under Pressure

These two posts dive into John Allspaw's (previous Head of Engineering at Etsy) Masters Thesis on heuristics on decision making under pressure, specifically in the context of dealing with an outage to a software service: https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/22/trade-offs-under-pressure-part-1/ and https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/24/trade-offs-under-pressure-part-2/ There are two noteworthy aspects to this: firstly the subject matter itself is useful. It identifies heuristics that engineers use to make trade-offs during outages. The second noteworthy thing is the methodology used: it demonstrates both an excellent methodology for conducting incident reviews. The visualization and classification of the timeline is very informative.

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