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How One CTO Uses Blameless Postmortems to Improve Reliability
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO transformed her engineering team's approach to incidents by institutionalizing blameless postmortems. They discuss a specific case where a major payment outage led not to finger-pointing but to systemic fixes, reducing similar incidents by 60 percent over six months. The hosts unpack the five-part postmortem template that the CTO introduced, the cultural resistance she faced from senior engineers, and the surprising side effect: improved cross-team collaboration. Lucas shares data from a 2024 survey showing that teams with blameless…
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