For episode one, we interview one of the world's leading thinkers on software resilience, resilience engineering, and human factors. John Allspaw is a founder of the Resilience in Software Foundation and a principal at Adaptive Capacity Labs. He previously served as CTO of Etsy, where his work helped shape many of the practices that became central to the DevOps movement.

John’s landmark 2009 talk with Paul Hammond, 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation, helped change how the industry thinks about the relationship between development and operations. John is also the author of The Art of Capacity Planning and Web Operations, and holds a master’s degree in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.

More recently, John’s work has focused deeply on resilience engineering, adaptive capacity, expertise, and how people actually make complex software systems work in the face of surprise and uncertainty.

Host Steve Semelsberger offers his perspectives on the why behind the Change Resilient podcast—and enthusiastically previews the show's first seven guests.