Prompt Engineering Patterns for SRE Playbooks and Postmortems (opens in new tab)

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud The Scenario Your runbook was written six months ago by someone who no longer works here — and it's 3am, three payments-api pods are OOMKilling in a cascade, and the on-call engineer is staring at a Confluence page that references a Datadog dashboard that got renamed in February. This is the real failure mode nobody talks about in postmortems: the documentation debt that compounds silently until it explodes during a P1. I've been in that seat. The thing ...