Slight Reliability

Slight Reliability Episode 89 - Blameless Post-mortems with Karanveer Anand

Slight Reliability

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Send us Fan Mail This week I'm joined by Karanveer Anand, SRE Technical Program Manager at Google to discuss blameless post-mortems. We cover: ๐Ÿฆ… The recent Crowdstrike outage and their public post-mortem ๐Ÿš‘ When do we do a blameless post-mortem? ๐Ÿ˜• How do we do a blameless post-mortem? โœ… How do we make sure action items are followed through? ๐Ÿ“ฐ The power of learning from post-mortems created by other teams and orgs ...and much more. You can find Karanveer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...

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