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curious_sre··on Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
Thanks all, this has been really helpful. One recurring theme seems to be that anything manual eventually gets ignored. Out of curiosity, has anyone seen any system that captures context automatically, without relying on people to write it down?
curious_sre··on Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
That’s helpful context, thanks. In practice, when incidents happen, where do people actually go to reconstruct the “why”? Is it mostly Slack archaeology and asking senior engineers, or is there something else that works better?
curious_sre··on Ask HN: How do teams remember why infrastructure decisions were made?
That makes sense. In your experience, do ADRs actually get revisited during incidents or onboarding, or do they mostly exist as reference docs that people forget about?