I’ve seen a lot over time in my tech career spanning over a decade, predominantly as a backend developer, then in operations and at various points along the sliding scale of leadership. Told in an anonymised story fashion, I’m going to shine a light on some of the failures I’ve experienced while working at various companies. I hope you can learn from my war stories and leave with ideas of how to mitigate and embrace failure, enabling you to learn from it. All views are my own.