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When declaring an incident becomes everyone’s favorite workaround

• 期号: SRE Weekly Issue #532（2026-08-31）
• 作者: Brent Chapman
• 链接: https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/11/declaring-incidents-for-side-effects/

简介

Need another team to do something fast? Just use this one weird trick: declare an incident! This article explains why the obvious solution (gating incident declaration) isn’t a good idea.