Praveen Kottarathil
@praveenkp.bsky.social
Slightly Reliable Engineer based in Amsterdam,NL.
Learning socio-technical something.
Learning socio-technical something.
Explaining robust-yet-fragile in a community of HSE practitioners and contrasting it with Hollnagel's RAG. Boy! This is way outside my competence envelope.
June 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Explaining robust-yet-fragile in a community of HSE practitioners and contrasting it with Hollnagel's RAG. Boy! This is way outside my competence envelope.
June 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A lot less guilty using harvested rainwater for garden, instead of from waternet network. #SimpleWins
April 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A lot less guilty using harvested rainwater for garden, instead of from waternet network. #SimpleWins
Just learned that the operational resilience minimum standards at my current workplace is built on Eric Hollnagel's #Resilience Assessment Grid. I just got jet engines under my wings!
a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of it 's mouth and the words awesome below it
ALT: a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of it 's mouth and the words awesome below it
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Just learned that the operational resilience minimum standards at my current workplace is built on Eric Hollnagel's #Resilience Assessment Grid. I just got jet engines under my wings!
Humans naturally adapt and compensate for broken designs and component failures. Well adapted cognitive work masks difficulties that people face to get their job done - from themselves and from others.
That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.
That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Humans naturally adapt and compensate for broken designs and component failures. Well adapted cognitive work masks difficulties that people face to get their job done - from themselves and from others.
That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.
That's the law of fluency. I didn't make it up.
Ever wondered what powers FOSDEM media boxes? Checkout this talk.
Want to know more about the boxes on the tables near the presenters? A tech talk about our new video boxes: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...
FOSDEM 2025 - FOSDEM videobox 2025
fosdem.org
February 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ever wondered what powers FOSDEM media boxes? Checkout this talk.
Beyond just the language setting ourselves up for failure, "root cause" have deeper issues. For me it triggers anxiety everytime i hear it. @allspaw.bsky.social has articulated it very well the issues here. Recommended material for SRE-201: github.com/readme/guide...
What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’
Instead of finding the ‘root cause’ to incidents and issues, @allspaw says it’s more accurate to try and break down what created the ‘perfect storm’:
github.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Beyond just the language setting ourselves up for failure, "root cause" have deeper issues. For me it triggers anxiety everytime i hear it. @allspaw.bsky.social has articulated it very well the issues here. Recommended material for SRE-201: github.com/readme/guide...
@mccricardo.bsky.social just spoke about incident response at #FOSDEM. It's a new dawn of SRE and related crafts at #FOSDEM beyond tools and framework. Folks in the resilience engineering community, let's go with devroom proposal for FOSDEM 2026.
@resilienceinsoftware.org
@resilienceinsoftware.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@mccricardo.bsky.social just spoke about incident response at #FOSDEM. It's a new dawn of SRE and related crafts at #FOSDEM beyond tools and framework. Folks in the resilience engineering community, let's go with devroom proposal for FOSDEM 2026.
@resilienceinsoftware.org
@resilienceinsoftware.org
February 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Good news! The sound issues in the #FOSDEM Free Java Devroom has just been fixed. Thanks to the volunteers that worked on this problem since the morning 💕
February 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Good news! The sound issues in the #FOSDEM Free Java Devroom has just been fixed. Thanks to the volunteers that worked on this problem since the morning 💕
February 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Folks swiping through YouTube shorts at full volume in a Business Class lounge is the living proof that money doesn't buy common civic sense.
#fail
#fail
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Folks swiping through YouTube shorts at full volume in a Business Class lounge is the living proof that money doesn't buy common civic sense.
#fail
#fail
As an Engineering Manager/peer engineer do you put on a poker face while #interviewing a potential candidate? I've been just me in all of my interviews but today I went to the other side of the table and faces stone cold poker faces. 🫠
November 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM
As an Engineering Manager/peer engineer do you put on a poker face while #interviewing a potential candidate? I've been just me in all of my interviews but today I went to the other side of the table and faces stone cold poker faces. 🫠
Next Monday, 24-Nov-24 is the third anniversary of the infamous #log4shell vulnerability disclosure. Remember the scramble to identify what in your estate has the dependency & are exploitable? How did your discovery & governance game improved since then?
November 19, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Next Monday, 24-Nov-24 is the third anniversary of the infamous #log4shell vulnerability disclosure. Remember the scramble to identify what in your estate has the dependency & are exploitable? How did your discovery & governance game improved since then?
November 18, 2024 at 7:32 PM
