Blameless postmortem reviews are an underrated part of FAANG engineering culture. Here's why:
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They don't blame engineers personally for breaking things. This allows postmortem conversations to revolve around the systems in place and how to improve them, which results in: 1. Less breakages over time - Everyone focuses retrospective energy on system improvements
2. Faster resolution - People are shameless about owning and escalating breakages 3. Better team health - people don’t beat themselves up over unavoidable breakages
Relying on fear to prevent breakage is much less reliable than automated system level tactics (e.g. test coverage, push blocking, static analysis tooling). What would your team do if a new hire destroyed a production database?
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so from reading this, the PRODUCTION DB URL was in the docs??? That's insane 😅
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