i help humans thrive in systems. š ļøš” Resilience | SRE | Speaker | Visual artist
Joined September 2015
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12 May 2025
Not active here anymore. Please find me on BlueSky, I would love to connect there: bsky.app/profile/busrakoken.ā¦
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9 Apr 2025
š New blogpost: Some of the most important things Iāve learned about resilience didnāt come from CPU metrics. They came from navigating the mess, with our users, and with my teammates.
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9 Apr 2025
I wrote about three guiding lights I keep coming back to in resilience work. Theyāre drawn from experience, with a few stories in each section. Would love to know if you resonate.
humansinsystems.com/blog/thrā¦
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21 Mar 2025
it took me 4 years but i finally took the courage to write about my burnout. it was hell of an experience, but that hugely contributed to what i am doing today
as vulnerable as it gets š humansinsystems.com/blog/youā¦
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17 Mar 2025
Humans in Systems is live! š
After a decade in SRE & engineering leadership, Iām now coaching, mentoring & consulting at the intersection of reliability, collaboration & resilience.
If you care building better systems *and* better teams, letās connect. humansinsystems.com
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24 Jan 2025
Woa itās been a while since i posted here! Well, friends, after 10 years in tech, iām excited to announce that i'll start my own thing š bringing resilience, leadership, and systems together to help people and teams thrive. See more on Linkedin: linkedin.com/posts/busrakokeā¦
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15 May 2024
The Amsterdam Open Source Data Infrastructure meetup at @datadoghq kicked off, first talk by @Cisco's Jeroen Vermeulen on using libpqxx, a C client library, to store in and retrieve from PostgreSQL fast šāāļø
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22 Mar 2024
Feel sad that i took the day off to enjoy a bunch of non-work related things, and i woke up sick this morning š„²
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9 Feb 2024
We're growing our team! If you care about providing an excellent on-call experience, learning from incidents, and are interested in analyzing broader organizational challenges, come work with me and my wonderful team! We are fun. I think. š¤
careers.datadoghq.com/detailā¦
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8 Feb 2024
A key to steady progress is prioritizing goals over moods.
Whether you aim to get in shape, learn the guitar, or write a book, the question is not whether you feel like it today. It's who you want to become tomorrow.
Enthusiasm fluctuates. Consistent action accumulates.
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30 Jan 2024
We discussed this in our team recently. Writing is a thinking exercise, don't worry about finding the perfect template for your write-up. Dive deep into your thoughts and start typing -rest will follow.
25 Jan 2024
The best way to gauge the quality of someoneās ideas isnāt to listen to them talking. Itās to read their writing.
Compelling speakers can mask weak logic with strong charisma. Putting key points on a page exposes flawed reasoning.
Compelling writing requires clear thinking.
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21 Dec 2023
Note to self for next quarterly planning: go into this period as āØrestedāØ as possible. Otherwise everything feels harder than it actually is.
(this applies to generally anything but this is my reality right now š)
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5 Dec 2023
Zoom fatigue is not burnout. Itās boreout.
New study: when meetings are virtual, weāre not overwhelmedāweāre understimulated. Cardiac measures show drowsiness, not stress.
The antidotes are common sense but not common practice: fewer, shorter, more interactive online meetings.
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I care about these talks so much because stories are what we learn from the most. I like that we don't keep them to ourselves but share them with the community. š«¶
8 Nov 2023
Feeling so lucky to be working with amazing folks in an amazing culture of ālearning from incidentsāš„ keynote at Kubecon with our largest incident story š
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8 Nov 2023
Feeling so lucky to be working with amazing folks in an amazing culture of ālearning from incidentsāš„ keynote at Kubecon with our largest incident story š
8 Nov 2023
.@hemanthmalla @lbernail are sharing how DataDog lost everything, everywhere, all at once - or more than 60% of its #Kubernetes nodes in less than an hour - and how it recovered and took steps to prevent another incident!
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Also check out another talk given by my awesome colleagues at recent SREcon EMEA about this. Especially also covering how we, humans, coordinated incident response.
youtu.be/82Tsujs6Qm4?si=OhJwā¦
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Busra Koken retweeted
27 Oct 2023
āØHappy Friday!āØ I'd like to take a sec to debunk a popular myth about the "deploy on Fridays" movement. Many seem to think we mean everyone should be deploying code right up til quitting time, every Friday.
This is not the point at all. This is NOT a great idea for most shops.
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29 Oct 2023
the motto that keeps me on track: *choose your own challenges*.
there's nothing more gratifying than learning and growing in the areas you're truly desire.
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29 Oct 2023
iāve been experiencing lots of personal and professional growth recently, hence less activitiy here. This makes me think about how to interpret comfort zone in a way that actually helps people, and not pressure them. Something iād love to talk more about in the furure.
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16 Aug 2023
I am having less and less motivation to open this app since -you know when. Where else do you folks hang out?
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