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Traditional Postmortems vs Chaos Engineering

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 learn chaos engineering when building or maintaining large-scale, distributed applications where reliability is critical, such as in cloud-native, microservices, or e-commerce platforms. Here's our take.

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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

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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

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

Chaos Engineering

Developers should learn Chaos Engineering when building or maintaining large-scale, distributed applications where reliability is critical, such as in cloud-native, microservices, or e-commerce platforms

Pros

  • +It is used to validate system resilience, uncover hidden dependencies, and ensure fault tolerance before real incidents occur, reducing downtime and improving customer trust
  • +Related to: distributed-systems, microservices

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 Chaos Engineering if: You prioritize it is used to validate system resilience, uncover hidden dependencies, and ensure fault tolerance before real incidents occur, reducing downtime and improving customer trust over what Traditional Postmortems offers.

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The Bottom Line
Traditional Postmortems wins

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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