resilience

The Craft of Troubleshooting — From Art, to Science, to AutomationThose who read my previous post on postmortems know that resilience is a subject close to my heart.After all, at Wix we deal with thousands of...

Through life’s challenges, how do you keep going when things seem overwhelming and you feel stuck? How do you build your strength to keep going when things don’t seem like they are going your way?Take a step back...

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can we spread a little more kindness in school? Yesterday was World Kindness Day, which allowed us to reflect on how we can be a little kinder in our everyday lives. We all need to receive...

Imagine a freezing and windy day in the middle of winter. Fingers are so cold that you hug your armpits for the warmth of skin. An FBI firearms instructor shouts orders, and at his command, you drop to the ice and snow...

Dear Madeleine, I recently graduated from college and started my first job. The job I was offered was the one I wanted, but on my first day I was moved to a different department and given a job that does not come close...

In times of crisis, information is almost as important as food, water and energy.Photo by Forest Katsch on UnsplashNassim Nicholas Taleb used the term “invest in preparedness, not in prediction” in his famous...

Is the U.S. in a recession? As I write this article, the answers, forecasts, and models vary — considerably. While economic output in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive quarter, the job market — typically...

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) programs are essential for building resilient workforces and organizations, particularly in response to racial violence, yet these programs are often taken for granted. In recent...

As customers commit to a DevOps mindset and embrace a nearly continuous integration/continuous delivery model to implement change with a higher velocity, assessing every change impact on an application resilience is...

Before the tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated into full-blown war, cyber activity in both countries surged. As Ukraine was bracing for an invasion, cyberattacks targeted the country’s banks and...

A. Richard Allen/theispot.com The ransomware business is booming: In the United States alone, this form of cyberattack increased in frequency by 200% between 2019 and 2021. It’s an urgent threat, but too many...

“Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lie our growth and our happiness.” This is one of my favorite quotes, most often...

Project ManagementResilience in projects is not about bouncing backResilience in today’s projects is really about taking advantage of the opportunities around us.With disruption and turbulence being the norm in...

Planning for Anticipated FailurePhoto by Artur Kornakov on Unsplash“Everything fails all the time” — Werner Vogels, AWS CTOThe infamous quote from one of the biggest tech leaders who ushered in the era of...