THE SHORT ANSWER
Predictable incidents are the deferred cost of known architecture shortcuts; unavoidable ones are true black swan events.
Flashcards
Q1
What is the primary cause of MTTR degradation?
Alert fatigue and lack of observability, which force engineers to guess the root cause instead of diagnosing it.
Q2
How does alert fatigue contribute to Sev-1 incidents?
When non-critical alerts fire constantly, critical alerts are ignored or muted by exhausted on-call engineers.
Q3
Why do "temporary" fixes become permanent risks?
Because the immediate pressure is relieved, and product roadmaps rarely allocate time to replace working code with clean code.
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This page covers Anatomy of a Production Incident as a technical flashcard. Description: What distinguishes a predictable production incident from an unavoidable one?.