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Brent Chapman
Company blog · greatcircle.com/blogsystemscareer
Brent Chapman is the company blog at greatcircle.com, writing about systems and career. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “What managing emergencies at Burning Man teaches me about incident management”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brent Chapman's blog for posts on incident management and statistics, such as a Burning Man death-rate analysis. One commenter describes his talk on incident command as an excellent talk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What managing emergencies at Burning Man teaches me about incident management3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-30
What Hacker News says?
Brent Chapman, author of "Incident Management for DevOps and SRE", just got back from his annual "not exactly a vacation" trip to Burning Man, where he's worked as a "Dispatch Supervisor" since 2012.[1] I as able to hear him at BayLISA giving his talk on incident command and what we can learn from the fire department[2][3], an excellent talk. [1] https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/09/29/burning-man-incident... [2] ht…
Comment linking /blog/2026/09/29/burning-man-incident-management/
on “Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics”Submitted When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI don't think it's entirely unfair. We know that the Russian government sponsors cyber attacks. They're not the only ones, we know the USA and China and North Korea and Israel and probably every other country does too. It all has to be taken into account. If I buy Cisco gear, what's the likelihood that it has an NSA tap in it? [1] If I buy Check Point gear, what's the likelihood that it has a Mossad tap in it? [2] I…
Comment linking /firewalls/mhonarc/firewalls.199707/msg00223.html
on “Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence”Submitted What managing emergencies at Burning Man teaches me about incident management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo, speaking as one of those fucktards[1], the idea that two third parties could possibly create interactive content without the participation of a standards body in the middle was a pretty neat idea. The 'pure render view' which was most commonly espoused early in the debate had the challenge that going from idea, to something people could use, took 6 months at a minimum and a year typically. Since you were there y…
Comment linking /firewalls/mhonarc/firewalls.199509/msg00353.html
on “New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild”Submitted What managing emergencies at Burning Man teaches about tech incident management as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"... I currently live in the Midwest, and the entrepreneurial and hacker culture is practically non existent out here ..." Midwest of where? "Hacker culture in the northwest" - northwest of where? To me north west is the Kimberleys ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_region_of_Western_Aus... inhabited for 40,000 years but hardly a hacker hotspot. But you raise a good point. In "Founders at Work" , Evan Williams…
Comment linking /gca/staff/brent.html
on “Ask HN: Most Hacker Culture in the Northwest”Submitted Why NASA flight director Gene Kranz is the gold standard for incident commanders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clearer Delegation, Smoother Incidents as a story · 1 points
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