Clint "SpamapS" Byrum
@spamaps.org
Insanely curious Sociotechnical Reality Engineer; Incident Nerd, speaker, writer, ranter, podcaster, father, husband, liberal citizen of the earth.
https://www.thisisfinepod.com/
https://medium.com/@Spamaps
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintbyrum/
https://www.thisisfinepod.com/
https://medium.com/@Spamaps
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintbyrum/
Measuring your organization's reliability by counting incidents or averaging their length is like measuring your company's value by how many emails the sales team sends, and how many words on average they contain. #resilience #NoMTTR
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Measuring your organization's reliability by counting incidents or averaging their length is like measuring your company's value by how many emails the sales team sends, and how many words on average they contain. #resilience #NoMTTR
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If you are developing any system, listen to this. Today.
Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social
www.thisisfinepod.com/the-pod
@colettecello.bsky.social
@spamaps.org
Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social
www.thisisfinepod.com/the-pod
@colettecello.bsky.social
@spamaps.org
The Pod — This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software
www.thisisfinepod.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you are developing any system, listen to this. Today.
Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social
www.thisisfinepod.com/the-pod
@colettecello.bsky.social
@spamaps.org
Learn about the Messy 9 from @ddwoods.bsky.social
www.thisisfinepod.com/the-pod
@colettecello.bsky.social
@spamaps.org
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
#NoKings Hundreds of us in Burbank joined millions showing up for our democracy today. So proud to be an American (and proud of my son Oliver for showing up to protest with me!). 🇺🇸📣🚫👑
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#NoKings Hundreds of us in Burbank joined millions showing up for our democracy today. So proud to be an American (and proud of my son Oliver for showing up to protest with me!). 🇺🇸📣🚫👑
Has anyone like, checked in on what the president's algorithm is showing him? Like, "Portland is literally burning to the ground" -- is that a lie to justify intimidating liberal cities... Or is he watching AI generated content of.. Portland burning to the ground?
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Has anyone like, checked in on what the president's algorithm is showing him? Like, "Portland is literally burning to the ground" -- is that a lie to justify intimidating liberal cities... Or is he watching AI generated content of.. Portland burning to the ground?
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I don't know what we do with the Senate, but why is she not House Minority Leader already
(I know why, you don't have to tell me)
This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*
(I know why, you don't have to tell me)
This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*
A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I don't know what we do with the Senate, but why is she not House Minority Leader already
(I know why, you don't have to tell me)
This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*
(I know why, you don't have to tell me)
This is showing the fuck up for your job and showing the fuck up for your community, which, when you are a politician, *IS YOUR FUCKING JOB*
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With kindness, because Gergely says a lot of smart things, I disagree. This is classic hindsight bias.
Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.
Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.
Whoa - Datadog's largest-ever outage in 2023 was caused by the same thing as Heroku's largest-ever one this June. Same OS version (Ubuntu 22.04), same process (sytemd)
If Heroku had done the same changes Datadog publicly shared in 2023, Heroku's outage would not have happened.
If Heroku had done the same changes Datadog publicly shared in 2023, Heroku's outage would not have happened.
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
With kindness, because Gergely says a lot of smart things, I disagree. This is classic hindsight bias.
Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.
Telling someone "if only you had done this, everything would've been fine!" is ignoring all of the work a team does otherwise. That doesn't help you be more robust or more resilient.
Let my 574 day Duolingo streak go today.
June 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Let my 574 day Duolingo streak go today.
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I think of an incident retro as akin to meeting with customer to discuss their needs. Spending that time discussing how you’ll build a solution is not a good use of the limited time you have with them. Instead, we should use that time to understand their problems and context. Solutions come later.
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think of an incident retro as akin to meeting with customer to discuss their needs. Spending that time discussing how you’ll build a solution is not a good use of the limited time you have with them. Instead, we should use that time to understand their problems and context. Solutions come later.
I'm more and more convinced that Idiocracy is about the singularity.
May 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm more and more convinced that Idiocracy is about the singularity.
Oh look, new automation creating new types of work.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
April 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh look, new automation creating new types of work.
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If you can’t see the constraints and tradeoffs that people face, you won’t be able to make sense of their behavior.
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you can’t see the constraints and tradeoffs that people face, you won’t be able to make sense of their behavior.
I picked a hell of a week to roll over that old 401k. Kinda ruined the feeling of adult accomplishment when they sell your shares on the worst day in market history.
April 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I picked a hell of a week to roll over that old 401k. Kinda ruined the feeling of adult accomplishment when they sell your shares on the worst day in market history.
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Well we did it, we finished a "Season". Watch as we wrap up season 1 and kick off season 2. More resilience, more questions, and, oh, yeah, come find us at #SREcon North America. We want to chat with you about resilience!
youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo
youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo
Teaser Episode - Season 2
YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Well we did it, we finished a "Season". Watch as we wrap up season 1 and kick off season 2. More resilience, more questions, and, oh, yeah, come find us at #SREcon North America. We want to chat with you about resilience!
youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo
youtu.be/l_I2-NOCKOo
So you like solving puzzles that involve TTLs, queues, transactions, etc eh? Do you find joy in refactoring APIs so that they only work the right way? Do state machines cower in your presence? I've got a job for you!
www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...
www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...
Senior Platform Engineer, United States - Careers at HashiCorp
Join our team and help us build industry-leading products that are redefining how enterprises are running their IT infrastructure.
www.hashicorp.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So you like solving puzzles that involve TTLs, queues, transactions, etc eh? Do you find joy in refactoring APIs so that they only work the right way? Do state machines cower in your presence? I've got a job for you!
www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...
www.hashicorp.com/en/career/63...
Yes! Get those walkable neighborhoods humming. We don't want 400 flat mega apartments that span multiple blocks. Just build 6 floors of apartments wherever 2 floor duplexes are being replaced.
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
Fewer staircases in new LA buildings? Why experts say it could unlock more housing
A new Los Angeles City Council proposal aims to allow single-staircase buildings, a change advocates say would make room for more apartments, including bigger units for young families.
laist.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yes! Get those walkable neighborhoods humming. We don't want 400 flat mega apartments that span multiple blocks. Just build 6 floors of apartments wherever 2 floor duplexes are being replaced.
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
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What a great podcast! Honored to be talking about Resilience Engineering with @colettecello.bsky.social and @spamaps.org!
@allspaw.bsky.social joined us last week to help contrast ITIL's approach of "Counting and tabulating incidents" with the resilience engineering way of looking directly at the messy reality underneath them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
Episode 10 - When They go Full ITIL on You w/special guest John Allspaw
YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What a great podcast! Honored to be talking about Resilience Engineering with @colettecello.bsky.social and @spamaps.org!
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@allspaw.bsky.social joined us last week to help contrast ITIL's approach of "Counting and tabulating incidents" with the resilience engineering way of looking directly at the messy reality underneath them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
Episode 10 - When They go Full ITIL on You w/special guest John Allspaw
YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@allspaw.bsky.social joined us last week to help contrast ITIL's approach of "Counting and tabulating incidents" with the resilience engineering way of looking directly at the messy reality underneath them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimc...
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How many 9s do you need, and how do you get there? @spamaps.org has some advice over on the @resilienceinsoftware.org blog.
resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335
resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335
a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ?
ALT: a woman is talking on a cell phone and says nine times ?
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
How many 9s do you need, and how do you get there? @spamaps.org has some advice over on the @resilienceinsoftware.org blog.
resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335
resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1148335
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency estimates could save people nationwide $5 billion.
But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.
But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.
NYers brace for effects of higher bank fees, dismantling CFPB
Some New York members of Congress are trying to repeal bank overdraft fee regulations. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency ...
publicnewsservice.org
February 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a rule capping account overdraft fees at $5, which the agency estimates could save people nationwide $5 billion.
But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.
But a bill coming up for a vote in the U.S. House this week would repeal it, allowing banks to charge up to $35 for these fees.
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How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
Murkowski: “It’s Denali.” | U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
www.murkowski.senate.gov
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...
I've been thinking a lot lately about "uptime" and "nines" and how easy it is to forget the human components.
medium.com/@Spamaps/you...
medium.com/@Spamaps/you...
You Can’t Build More Nines
More nines are achievable… whether we consciously know this or not, we didn’t do it just by building software.
medium.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I've been thinking a lot lately about "uptime" and "nines" and how easy it is to forget the human components.
medium.com/@Spamaps/you...
medium.com/@Spamaps/you...
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We're back! Alex Elman joined us to chat about Learning From Incidents, which apparently is just like eating your vegetables. So is listening to our podcast, so, go eat your resilience vegetables!
youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg
youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg
Episode 9 Learning from Incidents with special guest Alex Elman
YouTube video by thisisfinepodcast
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We're back! Alex Elman joined us to chat about Learning From Incidents, which apparently is just like eating your vegetables. So is listening to our podcast, so, go eat your resilience vegetables!
youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg
youtu.be/MwpBTBMHNMg
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The VOID podcast is back! Get an insiders view on what dealing with software incidents/outages is really like. podcast.thevoid.community/1793843/epis...
Episode 7: When Uptime Met Downtime - The VOID
We took a bit of a hiatus from recording last year, but we're back with an episode that I think everyone is really going to enjoy. Late last year, John Allspaw told me about this new company called Up...
podcast.thevoid.community
January 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The VOID podcast is back! Get an insiders view on what dealing with software incidents/outages is really like. podcast.thevoid.community/1793843/epis...
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I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.