Welcome to the Calculus of IT double feature you didn’t know you needed. In this two-part journey, me and Mike stare down the end of the world - at least, the IT version - and ask: what does it really mean to be resilient when everything is “as-a-service,” your best people keep quitting, and zero-trust is somehow both everywhere and nowhere?
In episode 11 Parts 1 and 2:
- Why true resilience is about more than just backup plans and disaster recovery - it’s about knowledge transfer, adaptability, and culture.
- How to build “graceful degradation” instead of catastrophic failure into your tech stack - and why sometimes, “just go get a coffee and wait it out” is the right answer.
- Rants on SaaS fragility, fourth-party risk, and why duplicating your data across every vendor is fun until AWS gets nuked.
- The real-world pros and cons of zero-trust, passwordless dreams, and whether we’re just dumbing people down for the sake of convenience.
- Practical frameworks (and a few philosophical tangents) for building knowledge resilience, operational resilience, and maintaining autonomy - even when the world is melting down.
- The Resilient Orchestrator archetype: that unnervingly calm IT leader who’s already got Plan B, C, and D (and maybe some snacks).
- Plus: job updates, security news, the fate of Box, why “five nines” is a myth, and the launch of Micro Spin - IT’s first trance supergroup.
Whether you’re prepping for the next cyberattack, pandemic, or sudden urge to form an EDM band, this is the survival kit for modern IT leaders.
Stay resilient, stay witty, and don’t forget to document your runbooks before the next person quits.
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