Incident Response

Structured incident management from detection through postmortem, with resilience patterns for preventing and containing cascading failures.

When to Use

• Production incident in progress (outage, degradation, data loss)
• Designing circuit breakers, bulkheads, or fallback strategies
• Conducting or planning chaos engineering exercises
• Writing or reviewing postmortem documents
• Establishing on-call procedures and escalation paths

Avoid when:

• The issue is a development-time bug with no production impact
• Designing general system architecture (use system-design instead)

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