The Anatomy of the Stack
When a system goes down, the postmortem usually points to a single technical failure: a missing index, an expired token, or a misconfigured load balancer. But the technical failure is just the final domino.
The Chaos Stack argues that systems fail because of the invisible stack of human decisions that preceded the incident. By turning those human and organizational forces into characters, we make the true causes of production incidents visible, recognizable, and a little easier to survive.