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		lazyant on Sept 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon tells employees to return to office five da... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model (kind of), pretty standard nowadays way in SRE to talk about root causes (plural) because usually it's more than one specific thing.

Twirrim on Sept 17, 2024 [–]

There's some serious academic critique of the Swiss Cheese model, too.

That said, I rather like it. It's straightforward to explain to people, they very quickly "get" it, and it gets them thinking along the right lines.

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