Reading a Postmortem Recommendations Section — Comprehension Exercises
Read the recommendations section below, then answer comprehension questions about action item classification, blocking status, owner vocabulary, and recurrence prevention framing.
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Action Items — INC-2026-0314
1. [BLOCKING] Extend certificate renewal automation to cover all internal services.
Owner: Platform team lead (D. Obi). Due: 2026-03-21.
This item will prevent a recurrence by closing the automation coverage gap that allowed queue-svc's certificate to expire unnoticed.
2. [BLOCKING] Add a PagerDuty alert for any certificate expiring within 30 days across all services.
Owner: Observability squad. Due: 2026-03-21.
This item will prevent a recurrence by ensuring the team is notified in advance of any future expiry, giving time for manual intervention even if automation fails.
3. [NON-BLOCKING] Document and schedule a quarterly audit of automation coverage.
Owner: Engineering manager (F. Laine). Due: 2026-04-15.
This item improves systemic health but does not directly prevent the same failure mode from occurring before the audit runs.
4. [NON-BLOCKING] Run a failover drill to validate that the backup queue path handles production traffic.
Owner: Platform team lead (D. Obi). Due: 2026-04-30.
This item will prevent a recurrence by confirming that the architectural redundancy we rely on actually works under realistic conditions.
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