Resilience Bites
Adrian HornsbyResilience Bites, the newsletter by Resilium Labs - Essays and newsletter issues on why engineering organizations keep having the same incidents — and what the feedback loops, organizational patterns, and tensions actually look like in practice.
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The Invoice That Arrives After the Incident Is Over
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When a major outage happens, the engineering team fixes it. A week later there is a postmortem where someone reads through the timeline that everyone already lived through, a few action items get written d...
The Severity Argument You Keep Having
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A client of mine had been through a series of outages. At some point, one of their customers told them:
“You seem more interested in negotiating priority than fixing my problem.”
That sentence has staye...
When No One in the Room Has Carried the Pager
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When I was at AWS, one of my areas of focus in the Resilience org (the team behind AWS FIS) was bar-raising ORRs, Operational Readiness Reviews, for the services we shipped. Bar-raising is an Amazon term...
The MTTR Argument You Keep Having
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If you have spent any time in an organisation that operates software, you have probably had this conversation more than once. Someone pulls up the MTTR dashboard, the number is too high, or has not moved...
The Interpretation Layer
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On April 20, 2026, a security researcher named @weezerOSINT publicly disclosed that chat histories and source code from public projects on Lovable, the AI (vibe)coding platform, could be accessed by any...
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Helping engineering organizations break the cycle of recurring incidents | Author: Why We Still Suck at Resilience | Founder, Resilium Labs
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