Engineering Robust Server Software 2025 Guest Lecture Additional Information
April 2, 2025•155 words
Thank you for attending my lecture on Incident Response. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
erss2025@anselcomputers.com (email will stay active unless/until it becomes a spam trap)
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wsZs67QqZj3nMVvXsvJuZDzOywJfK0THGIPjY-3-xiM/edit
Slide Notes: https://pub.anselcomputers.com/p/GddAn6U6pR
References and more information
Here is some of my inspiration for the presentation. I found each of these links to be very interesting on their own, so I encourage you to give them a look.
- A speculative analysis of the Moore County power outage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwY-FTqWxM
- They Write the Right Stuff (Space shuttle software development process): https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
- Why the software industry doesn't target 100% uptime (unpacking the 2020 Iowa caucus technical issues): https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/
- Fundamental Concepts of Dependability (Fault, Error, Failure model) https://pld.ttu.ee/IAF0530/16/avi1.pdf
- B-17 Flying Fortress story (from the outgoing director of the UK's cyber security center): https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/so-long-thanks-for-all-the-bits
- Blameless postmortems: https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/blameless-postmortems
- Everything on the course page, but you already knew that ;-) https://people.duke.edu/~bmr23/ece568/