WTF is Reliability Engineering? 

In what might be the most pragmatic issue of WTF is Cloud Native?, we continue our theme of reliability—across teams, business, software and everything in between. Oh, and we just finished hosting the incredible and insightful WTF is SRE? on 28 April. (Check out the talks when you’re done reading here.)

To close off this theme, we ask and answer ‘WTF is organisational reliability, resiliency and radical uncertainty?’ Sarah Wells begins by sharing how site reliability engineering techniques from the Financial Times echo through to organisational reliability. Shane Hastie looks at what a resilient organisational culture is and how to cultivate it. During times of radical uncertainty, there’s usually an invisible fight; recruiters vs. resilience. Jennifer Riggins looks at where to place your bets and how to potentially not lose the fight regardless of which way it goes. In the second “hacking the Org” podcast Charles Humble interviews Susanne Kaiser to uncover how Wardley Mapping fits with Domain-Driven Design and a layer of Team Topologies. 

Anne Currie looks at Edge in space, and whether the final frontier is ready to offer us an advantage or whether we should come back down to earth for a while longer. Christiaan Vermeulen looks at what it takes to make innovation reliable. Peter Wadsworth dives into supply chain mapping as a way to uncover constraints, with excellent examples and sensible steps on how. 

Ready? Let’s do this!