The Silver Lining Consortium: Post-Mortems for the Rest of Us
summary
Argues for a consortium that defines a standardized post-mortem schema and runs a centralized, searchable corpus of public cloud post-mortems with tooling to anonymize and import historical reports. Specifies membership obligations to regularly contribute structured post-mortems and rights to early access, plus benefits like clearer timelines, quantified impact metrics, tracked follow-ups, mandatory graphs, and an audit trail that lets providers learn recurrent customer failures and researchers analyze human factors. Suggests timebound publication guarantees and shared review processes.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:48Disclaimer
- 5:37The Timeline Column
- 8:30Preventative Steps
- 9:19Follow-Ups to a Post-Mortem
- 27:40The Rights and Obligations of Membership
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