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Author here: We explicitly moved away from postmortem at Heroku and follow the same at Citus Data because postmortem has references essentially to something hav
by craigkerstiens 9y ago
Author here: We explicitly moved away from postmortem at Heroku and follow the same at Citus Data because postmortem has references essentially to something having died. The blameless part of a postmortem helps, but blaming something is separate from the idea of examining something that has been killed. There is a ton of value in emphasizing the blameless part though, so very noted.
The business impact is something that is important, and we often do measure. I often aimed to separate two somewhat as leading with that can create some unintended consequence of aiming to point blame/etc.
- SomeHacker44 9y agoThat is a very literal interpretation of post"mortem" to which I don't subscribe in this context. The Oxford Shorter English dictionary I have on this iPad also includes this definition: "An analysis or discussion conducted after the conclusion of a game, examination, or other event." (I won't get involved in a discussion of what a dictionary is or what its purpose is, sorry.) I also like and use the term postmortem to mean what this author calls retrospectives, and use the term retrospective to mean a more general look back without being event-based.
- EpicEng 9y agoSounds to me like spending a lot of time on meaningless semantics.