John Allspaw, Adaptive Capacity Labs
John Allspaw didn’t just witness the birth of the DevOps and SRE movements - he helped write the script. He offers a rare blend of deep technical experience and academic rigor. This is a strictly off-the-record, no-AV session designed for high-signal Q&A. Ask him anything: about the history of the movement, the future of resilience engineering, and beyond.
John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement. John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.
author = {John Allspaw},
title = {{AMA} with John Allspaw},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}