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Embracing Failure and Learning from Our Mistakes with Effective Post Mortems by Ilan Rabinovitch

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Embracing Failure and Learning from Our Mistakes with Effective Post Mortems - Ilan Rabinovitch, Datadog

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. When things go wrong, and our services are impacted, we need to tell the story of our failures so that we can grow and learn as team.  Postmortems offer us an opportunity to share this knowledge, so that we can build on  our successes and avoid repeating our mistakes in the future.  In this session we will discuss how Datadog runs our internal postmortems from data collection to building timelines to the blameless review.  Attendees will leave with a framework they can apply right away to make postmortems more impactful in their own organizations.

About Ilan Rabinovitch

Ilan is Director of Technical Community at Datadog. Prior to joining Datadog, he spent a number of years leading infrastructure and reliability engineering teams at organizations such as Ooyala and Edmunds.com. In addition to his work at Datadog, he active in the open-source and DevOps communities, where he is a co-founder of events such as SCALE, Texas Linux Fest, and DevOpsDay LA among other community activities.

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