Learn from your incidents

Data engineering is complex, and things will go wrong. Following up on incidents with some form of analysis helps:

• Prevent the same type of incident from repeating
• Improve the engineering quality of your applications
• Increase the visibility of your data incidents and their root causes

By getting together after an incident and performing a post-mortem you can uncover a set of follow-up actions that can:

• Reduce the impact on users of future incidents
• Reduce the risk that this incident happens again
• Reduce the costs of responding to future incidents

Take the opportunity to learn from your incidents.