Traditional Postmortems vs Blameless Postmortems
Developers should use Traditional Postmortems when responding to major incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to understand what went wrong and implement fixes meets developers should use blameless postmortems after incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to improve system reliability and team collaboration. Here's our take.
Traditional Postmortems
Developers should use Traditional Postmortems when responding to major incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to understand what went wrong and implement fixes
Traditional Postmortems
Nice PickDevelopers should use Traditional Postmortems when responding to major incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to understand what went wrong and implement fixes
Pros
- +It is essential for fostering a culture of continuous improvement, reducing downtime, and enhancing team collaboration by learning from failures without assigning blame
- +Related to: incident-management, root-cause-analysis
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Blameless Postmortems
Developers should use Blameless Postmortems after incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to improve system reliability and team collaboration
Pros
- +It is essential in DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) contexts to reduce downtime and enhance resilience by addressing underlying issues rather than scapegoating
- +Related to: site-reliability-engineering, devops-culture
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Traditional Postmortems if: You want it is essential for fostering a culture of continuous improvement, reducing downtime, and enhancing team collaboration by learning from failures without assigning blame and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Blameless Postmortems if: You prioritize it is essential in devops and sre (site reliability engineering) contexts to reduce downtime and enhance resilience by addressing underlying issues rather than scapegoating over what Traditional Postmortems offers.
Developers should use Traditional Postmortems when responding to major incidents like production outages, security breaches, or critical bugs to understand what went wrong and implement fixes
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