#7 Don't knock the checklist

Action items resulting from a postmortem analysis are often to implement more advanced monitoring or deploy new tools to track usage at a fine-grain level. Today, Timothy Raymond shows us that a good old checklist can sometimes be the most efficient way to prevent regressions in production. Some concepts mentioned in the episode: Roadblocking in advertising: when a single ad or product is displayed all over the place to capture maximum attention. Beware of URL capping. As a rule of thumb, keep your URL below 2000 characters . About our guest, Timothy Raymond (Twitter @tim_raymond) is a seasoned Go programmer and currently a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft. You can check his blog at timraymond.com