In any post mortem, it's dreadfully important to capture information while everything is fresh. People writing articles like this now are capturing valuable information that will inform any thorough post-mortem performed later.
The absolutely most useful post-mortems I've dealt with were ones where information wasn't gathered immediately. An outage that occurs on a Friday night is an example of one that will be low fidelity and less actionable. By Monday morning, everyone involved forgets many important details and the proper order of events necessary to get an accurate picture of what happened.
The absolutely most useful post-mortems I've dealt with were ones where information wasn't gathered immediately. An outage that occurs on a Friday night is an example of one that will be low fidelity and less actionable. By Monday morning, everyone involved forgets many important details and the proper order of events necessary to get an accurate picture of what happened.