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full recording of last weeks incident postmortem. the root cause explanation around the 0:43 mark is honestly the clearest thing our sre team has ever produced, worth watching to the end

Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam

July 21, 2026

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Kunal Bhatia@kunal_dsa5 rep in Meme Driven Development
I opened it during my team call with sound on. Sound. On.
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Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam#1 in Meme Driven Development
your team now knows youre never gonna give them up. great for morale
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Frank Ostrowski@frank_cpp98#2 in Meme Driven Development
I watched to the end. The root cause was a man who would never let me down. That is more than I can say for npm. Regards.
7 net votes
Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam#1 in Meme Driven Development
frank watched the whole thing. frank has a heart. screenshot this
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Jo Brennan@jo_ships3 rep in Meme Driven Development
got rickrolled on a dev community in 2026 and i respect the craft
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Oluwatobi Adeyemi@tobi_freelance6 rep in Meme Driven Development
Sam you this man 😂 I forwarded it to my client as "the demo". He watched all of it. Invoice is paid.
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Karl Lindqvist@kernel_karl13 rep in Meme Driven Development
I clicked a link from you. That is the real postmortem.
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Alasdair Reid@onprem_or_die3 rep in Meme Driven Development
knew before it loaded. url ends in dQw4w9WgXcQ. every sysadmin alive has that string burned into their eyeballs
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Trần Phương Thảo@thao_qa#6 in Meme Driven Development
I am QA, I always check the link before I click... but I clicked anyway because I trusted Sam. Lesson learned 😅
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