<p><a href="https://adventuresindevops.com/episodes/2025/10/02/it-dictionary-euphemisms-postmortems-cargo-cult" target="_blank">Share Episode</a> ⸺ Episode Sponsor: <a href="https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute" target="_blank">Attribute</a> - <a href="https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute" target="_blank">https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute</a><br /><br />We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, <a href="https://adamkorga.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adam Korga</a>, celebrating the release of his book <a href="https://amzn.to/4gR9jOW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IT Dictionary</a>. In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technology.</p><p>Adam shares how he started in the industry, long before DevOps was a coined term, focused on making systems safer and avoiding mistakes like accidentally dropping a production database. we review the infamous incidents of accidental database deletion, by LLMs and human's alike.</p><p>And of course we touch on the quintessential postmortems in civil engineering, flight, and survivorship bias from World War II through analyzing bullet holes on returning planes.</p><b>💡 Notable Links:</b><br /><ul><li>Adam's book: <a href="https://amzn.to/4gR9jOW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IT Dictionary</a></li><li><a href="https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Knight Capital: the 45 minute nightmare</a></li><li>Work Chronicles Comic: <a href="https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-white-lies" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Will my architecture work for 1 Million users?</a></li></ul><b>🎯 Picks:</b><br /><ul><li>Warren - <a href="https://candlshop.com/Flora" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cuitisan CANDL storage containers</a></li><li>Adam - <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13064902/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">FUBAR</a></li></ul>