---
id: 2781
title: "Yes, You Will Take Down Production (And That's Okay)"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/yes-you-will-take-down-production-and-thats-okay"
published_at: "2022-01-28T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["incident-response", "code-review", "reliability", "engineering-culture", "postmortem", "production"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2781"
lang: en
---

# Yes, You Will Take Down Production (And That's Okay)

## Summary

Engineer Will Barrett recounts taking down production in his second week at Change.org, arguing outages are inevitable, and shares how transparent postmortems and safeguards turn them into learning.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2022-01-28T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/yes-you-will-take-down-production-and-thats-okay
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2781