In this episode of The Debrief, we chat with Colette Alexander, Director of Engineering at HashiCorp, about common myths around incident response.
What if we told you that everything you thought you knew about incident response was wrong.
Well, at least some of it.
That some of the things you’ve been doing for years might not actually be having the impact you thought they did. Or, even worse, that some of the assumptions you’ve been making have actually been having a negative impact on you, your team and your organization.
This week, we’re talking about myths around incident response. And who better to dispel some of these myths than Director of Engineering at HashiCorp, Colette Alexander.
We chat about myths around learning and process, why “why” is the wrong question to be asking after incidents, and why documenting risk doesn’t necessarily help you manage them.

Three founders, one kitchen table, and a very honest end of year conversation. In this episode we look back on 2025, from moving continents and growing the company at pace, to ski trips that probably should not have happened, live demos that absolutely could have gone wrong, and the small moments that made the year memorable.

In this episode, CTO Pete and Product Engineer Rory B. discuss how we’re using Claude Code and Git Worktrees to allow engineers to build multiple features in parallel.

In this episode, we chat with Product Engineer Leo about how we’re using AI tools like Claude Code to ship more product, more quickly.
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