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by bananapub 375 days ago
It’s not a euphemism - every outage, including the 99.9% that don’t end up on HN gets a postmortem document written about it, which is almost always a fascinating discussion of the technical, cultural and organisational situation that led to an unexpected bad thing happening.

Even a few years ago senior management knew to stay the fuck out except for asking for more info.