Failure Analysis
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The systematic investigation of why something failed, with the goal of understanding causes, contributing factors, and improvements. In engineering culture failure analysis is valuable because surface explanations are usually too shallow to prevent recurrence.
In plain English: Careful analysis of why something failed.
Example: "Their failure analysis showed that the outage was not caused by one bad deploy alone, but by weak rollback tooling and unclear ownership around the recovery path."