Chris Evans's posts

The flight plan that brought UK airspace to its knees

On August 28, 2023, a software bug in the UK air traffic control system caused six hours of chaos, reducing air traffic capacity and forcing manual operations. It's a great story of failure, resilience and communications in complex systems.

Mastering regulatory compliance with incident.io

Learn how incident.io streamlines regulatory compliance by automating incident management, enhancing collaboration, and simplifying audits for frameworks like GDPR, SOC2, and DORA.

Why I like discussing actions items in incident reviews

Action items are a natural part of understanding and improving the systems we work with—an extension of the overall learning process. So, what better place to discuss them than in the incident review itself?

The ultimate guide to on-call schedules

Learn how to create effective on-call schedules that balance operational efficiency with employee well-being. Explore best practices, scheduling patterns, and tools to minimize downtime and prevent burnout.

Short-lived teams, sweating the details and zero bugs: How Linear raises the bar

This week, we talking to Sabin Roman from Linear, to talk about how they build teams, their zero bugs policy and heaps more.

Behind the streams: how Netflix drives reliability across their organization

This week we sit down with Hank Jacobs, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix to discuss their deployment of incident.io across their organization.