# How SRE Teams Use Game Days to Build Incident Muscle Memory

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Podcast: [The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo: SRE, Uptime, and Production Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923)
Published: 2026-07-15T10:08:28+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0112.mp3
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## Resource

In this episode of The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of Game Days—simulated failure exercises that help SRE teams build muscle memory without risking production. They walk through how companies like Google and Netflix run these events, from chaos engineering experiments to tabletop exercises for on-call teams. The hosts discuss a specific case: a major e-commerce platform that discovered a critical database failover bug during a Game Day, preventing what would have been hours of downtime during Black Friday. They also cover practical tips for starting small, avoiding blame culture during simulations, and measuring success through mean time to detection and mean time to resolution improvements. If you're an SRE or platform engineer looking to harden your incident response, this episode offers concrete takeaways on designing effective Game Days that translate directly to real-world resilience. #GameDays #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ChaosEngineering #IncidentResponse #Uptime #ProductionEngineering #Resilience #FailureTesting #OnCall #MTTD #MTTR #Runbooks #GoogleSRE #Netflix #BlackFriday #Technology #FexingoBusiness Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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