Roundtable: Running Effective Outage Post Mortems
What actually improves after an outage—depends on how you run the post mortem.
Every team hits failure. The question is what you learn—and what you actually fix—after the dust settles.
Join a candid, peer-level conversation about what makes post mortems valuable (or not), and how to move beyond finger-pointing to real progress. We'll cover:
- The anatomy of a post mortem that actually drives change
- Balancing technical root cause with systemic issues—like culture, process, and ownership
- Handling high-stakes incidents without creating fear or blame
- How seasoned leaders align execs, ICs, and SREs in the aftermath
This isn’t theory. It’s hard-earned lessons from the real world.
Meet Your Host
Prashant Ramarao — SVP of Engineering @ Yahoo
Prashant leads global AI and infrastructure teams at Yahoo, where reliability at scale is non-negotiable. From Sun Microsystems to Yahoo’s high-performance AI systems, he’s seen (and learned from) every kind of failure. In this roundtable, he’ll share how he approaches post mortems not just as a tool for analysis—but as a leadership moment.
This roundtable is for engineering leaders who want to build systems—and teams—that get stronger under pressure. Join us and bring your toughest questions.
