Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought I might give some detail on how that actually happens, and why. Anyone who's worked with technology at any scale is familiar with failure. Failure cares not about the architecture designs you labor over, the code you write and review, or the alerts and metrics you meti
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