Blog post summary: Blameless PostMortems post by John Allspaw

The following is a slightly summarized version of this blog post from John Allspaw that I really like: Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture 

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Book chapter summary: Postmortem Culture, from the SRE Book

I’m really enjoying reading the excellent “SRE Book“. Chapter 15 “Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure” in particular, really struck a chord with me. The following is a slightly summarized version of it.

TLDR: Failures are inevitable, especially in distributed systems. To learn from them, document in Postmortems, avoiding blame, and share the newly gained learnings across your org.

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