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by googlerx 1602 days ago
"blameless postmortem" was a thing at google well before 2012.
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xref 1602 days ago
Possibly the concept existed but the “blameless” term is widely credited to the GP, John Allspaw, who became CTO of Etsy. At least I haven’t found anything definitive predating him.

Also impressive he’s had an HN acct for 12 years but only 5 karma!

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jspaw 1601 days ago
The SRE book authors cited the post specifically (https://sre.google/sre-book/bibliography/#All12), and Googlers I’ve spoken to mentioned its influence there.
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