Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
(Chelsea Finnie) Changes are scary. Changes in production are scarier, especially if you haven’t done them before. Ideally, you’d have pipelines and staging environments, and everything just gets handled automatically.
Unfortunately, reality isn’t always ideal, and you’re faced with having to “yolo” a change; implementing something without waiting for everything to be perfect.
The aviation industry has spent decades operating safely in environments where not everything is known in advance. It relies on shared attitudes, behaviours, and simple checklists to help people make good decisions under pressure.
In this talk, I’ll draw on those ideas and apply them to platform engineering, looking at how to recognise when to commit to a change and when it’s safer to abort and try again.
https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/QRNWPN/
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Thu Aug 27 12:05:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 1
(Chelsea Finnie) Changes are scary. Changes in production are scarier, especially if you haven’t done them before. Ideally, you’d have pipelines and staging environments, and everything just gets handled automatically.
Unfortunately, reality isn’t always ideal, and you’re faced with having to “yolo” a change; implementing something without waiting for everything to be perfect.
The aviation industry has spent decades operating safely in environments where not everything is known in advance. It relies on shared attitudes, behaviours, and simple checklists to help people make good decisions under pressure.
In this talk, I’ll draw on those ideas and apply them to platform engineering, looking at how to recognise when to commit to a change and when it’s safer to abort and try again.
https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/QRNWPN/
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Thu Aug 27 12:05:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 1
