How GitHub SREs Run Postmortems Without Blame

Episode 12 of The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo digs into GitHub's postmortem culture — specifically how their SRE team runs incident reviews that actually prevent recurrence without destroying psychological safety. Lucas and Luna walk through the five-part structure GitHub uses, the distinction between 'blame' and 'accountability,' and why writing a timeline before identifying causes changes the whole conversation. They also touch on a 2023 availability incident that GitHub's postmortem process turned into a system-wide improvement. If your team's incident reviews feel like finger-pointing or box-checking, this episode gives you a concrete framework to try. No ads, listener-supported — a few folks chip in at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. #GitHub #Postmortem #BlamelessCulture #IncidentReview #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #IncidentManagement #PsychologicalSafety #LearningCulture #DevOps #ProductionEngineering #Uptime #Infrastructure #RootCauseAnalysis #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #SREPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo