Cheat Sheet
What's Actually Breaking Your Systems?
A one-page reference built from 27,000+ classified real-world incidents — classify your failures consistently and find the patterns that repeat.
What you'll learn
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30 failure mode codes across 8 families, with real frequency data from the SSOR 2026 corpus
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Your reliability archetype: Dependency-Driven, Velocity-Driven, Capacity-Driven, or AI-Risk-Driven
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Early-warning codes for AI-induced failures (FM-17, FM-19, FM-33) most SRE playbooks don't cover yet
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A practical prompt to identify which failure modes dominated your last quarter
