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Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google

Read how Google is using System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to analyze pure software systems and discover risks.

Also, though people found the class interesting, it was less compelling without the other steps of STPA, where the control structure plays a key role in discovering design flaws and unsafe system behavior. As we held training sessions for more Googlers, spoke to more SREs, and led STPA projects for more teams, some powerful themes began to emerge that consistently resonated with our audience. That brings us to the latest phase of STPA training development at Google: we are building a self-serve internal version of our workshop, with a series of short recordings, including homework assignments.

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