A Political Scientist's View on Site Reliability

Explore a unique perspective on site reliability through the lens of political science in this 30-minute conference talk from SREcon21. Discover how empirical research on social change can enhance understanding of team dynamics and evolution, and learn how analyzing political systems as self-organizing entities can provide insights for simplifying modern production environments. Gain fresh approaches to everyday software engineering challenges without requiring prior political science knowledge. Delve into topics such as team building, social change, international relations theories, game theory, and system complexity. Uncover the connections between political science concepts and software engineering practices, offering a novel framework for addressing site reliability issues.

Intro
Politics, policy, and polity
Political science: Relation to other domains
A political scientist's insights...
Team building is ..
Social change 101
International Relations Theories: simplified
Game theory: Prisoner's dilemma
Team building: Network organization
Team building as social change
Next Steps: all about complexity
System theory and debugging
Even more complexity
A political scientist's insights ..