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How SRE Teams Use Game Days to Test Incident Response
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- Jun 24, 2026
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Summary
In this episode of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of game days — structured simulations where SRE teams deliberately inject failures to test their incident response and on-call processes. They discuss a real example from a major streaming platform that runs quarterly game days to validate runbooks and reduce mean time to resolve from 45 minutes to under 15. The hosts explore how game days differ from chaos engineering, why psychological safety is critical for participation, and how teams can start small with a single service dependency failure. They also share tips on post-game day retrospectives and building a culture of preparedness without blame. #GameDays #IncidentResponse #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ChaosEngineering #OnCall #Runbooks #MeanTimeToResolve #Reliability #ProductionEngineering #DevOps #Resilience #FaultInjection #Postmortem #PsychologicalSafety #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo