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Will Gallego
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Will Gallego's personal blog at willgallego.com covers programming and career. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Continuous Verification of Friday Deploys”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on root cause analysis, arguing against the Five Whys method. A commenter describes it as their favourite article on the topic, saying incidents have many contributing factors, not one root cause.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Continuous Verification of Friday Deploys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-26
- Rethinking Best Practices – Will Gallego2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-20
- Resilience Engineering and Error Budgets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps more accurate is that there is no one root cause, but a bunch of contributing factors. I had a quick search to find my favourite article on this one, it might be https://willgallego.com/2018/04/02/no-seriously-root-cause-i... as it demolishes Five Whys but https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-on... is a classic
Comment linking /2018/04/02/no-seriously-root-cause-is-a-fallacy/
on “Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week”Submitted No, Seriously. Root Cause Is a Fallacy as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practiced Humility in Retrospectives as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Incident Review of an Incident Review – Will Gallego as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resilience Engineering and Error Budgets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Switching and Titles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking Best Practices – Will Gallego as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking Best Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Even Experts Need Experts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Verification of Friday Deploys as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resilience Engineering and Error Budgets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Enough to Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Invisible Success of Near Misses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Safety Is Dangerous Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awakening the Sleeping Mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Verification of Friday Deploys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Support Driven Engineering (SDE) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on the role of Incident Commander as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
