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# Software engineering responses to COVID-19 — My take on REA’s Webinar
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- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #226（2020-07-05）
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- **作者**: Lex Neva
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- **链接**: https://www.lexneva.name/blog/2020/07/05/software-engineering-responses-to-covid-19-my-take-on-reas-webinar/
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## 简介
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I wrote this after attending the Resilience Engienering Association’s webinar with panelists Dr. Richard Cook, John Allspaw, and Nora Jones, moderated by Laura Maguire. Once the recording is posted, I highly recommend watching!
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## 正文
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Last week, the Resilience Engineering Association held a webinar, [*Software engineering responses to COVID-19*](https://www.lexneva.name/_wp_link_placeholder). Here they use Software Engineering to differentiate from all the other fields they cover under the umbrella of Resilience Engineering.
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The webinar panelists were John Allspaw, Nora Jones, and Dr. Richard Cook, with the venerable Laura Maguire moderating. I really enjoyed the webinar, and I look forward to the recording being posted.
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Until then, here are some choice bits that I hastily jotted down as I listened. These aren’t direct quotes, because I’m not that good at shorthand, but I tried to at least get the gist of what they said. **These are not word-for-word quotes**. I’m going to enclose everything below in brackets just to avoid any possible confusion.
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The panel discussed the tendency for companies to institute code freezes in reaction to COVID-19.
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[A change freeze is something c-levels *imagine* they can do, but it’s not real. Changes still happen, exceptions are made. It’s an illusion of control.]
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[Code freezes are incompatible with making changes to “fix” incidents. Also, code freezes are ripe for confirmation bias. How do we know if it works?]
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John Allspaw
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[Deploys build up during a code freeze, and meanwhile deployment muscles have atrophied, which often leads to incidents after the freeze is lifted.]
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Nora Jones
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There was also a great discussion of adaptive capacity and which companies or kinds of companies are reacting well to the pandemic (and why).
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[The companies that survive won’t be the ones that are good at planning. Rather, it will be the ones that can react quickly and adapt to changes.]
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Dr. Richard Cook
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[If I were a CTO now, I would be paying attention to how peopel are getting things done in *spite* of what I’m saying they should do. I’d be paying attention to how they’re adapting.]
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That’s all that I managed to scribble down, although there was a ton more that I didn’t capture, especially from Nora Jones and Laura Maguire. I found myself wishing that Laura were on the panel itself, although she did a wonderful job of leading the discussion and adding her own color to what the panelists said.
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All told: well worth the listen.
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