A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

From the dictionary

RUNBOOK

n.Instructions written for an emergency and first read during one.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing an engineer reaching for a runbook during a smoking server-room emergency, while Lucifer calmly points to the manual.
The illustrated dictionary RUNBOOK
A connected train of thought

  1. Incidents & Operations

    ERROR BUDGET n.

    The approved quantity of failure.

  2. Incidents & Operations

    POST-MORTEM n.

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

  3. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KAFKA n.

    A system for ensuring that no event is truly lost, merely waiting somewhere you have not yet inspected.