Dia de los Muertos - Postmortems that save lives
summary
Argues that postmortems become actionable by treating them as a mandatory part of incident response, an onboarding artifact and a team-bonding ritual, and describes six concrete types including detective, open problem and celebration. Recommends specific practices: schedule time after events, record step‑by‑step timelines, collect feedback, tag where investigations start, and share reports when similar incidents recur. Claims two real occasions where postmortems prevented repeat outages and “paid for themselves” by avoiding costly downtime.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Preamble
- 0:53What's Postmortem?
- 1:55Pre-mortem
- 2:28Autopsy
- 2:59Types of Postmortem
- 3:35Root cause analysis
- 3:56The Detective
- 4:24The Open Problem
- 5:03The Celebration
- 5:35How to keep up?
- 6:39Conclusion
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