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Incident Response

The first five minutes, blast radius, cascades, graphs that mislead, partial failures, mitigation, communication and the post-mortem.

10 lessons · about 90 minutes

What you'll go through

  • 01The page arrives at 04:12. What do you do first?9 min
  • 02Everything is red and none of it is yours9 min
  • 03Nothing changed, and yet9 min
  • 04Slow, or full? They look identical and are not9 min
  • 05One slow service and the whole platform is down9 min
  • 06The metric recovered and the users did not9 min
  • 07Only 3% of requests fail, and it is always the same 3%9 min
  • 08Rolling back before you understand it is the right call9 min
  • 09The status update nobody had to ask for8 min
  • 10Blameless is a technique, not a courtesy10 min