A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire

Modern life, properly defined.

Subjects

Incidents & Operations.

On-call life, outages, post-mortems, reliability engineering and the discovery that production is different.

3 published definitions

  1. Incidents & Operations

    RUNBOOK n.

    Instructions written for an emergency and first read during one.

  2. Incidents & Operations

    ERROR BUDGET n.

    The approved quantity of failure.

  3. Incidents & Operations

    POST-MORTEM n.

    A meeting at which the dead are questioned about their failure to prevent the murder.