The expensive part of these incidents is almost never the fix. It is the twenty minutes spent deciding whose incident it is.
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The expensive part of these incidents is almost never the fix. It is the twenty minutes spent deciding whose incident it is.
Updated Oct 2026 · Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.
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