Week-Long Outage: Lifelong Lessons



Posted on Tue Apr 28 2026 | 3:43 pm


Molly Struve discusses a brutal six-day outage that nearly sank a company. She explains technical lessons like the importance of FMEAs, shadow traffic, and exercising rollback mechanisms. She shares why the human elements - widening your circle early and having a VP who acts as a defender - are what truly build psychological safety.




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