# Using incidents to level up your teams

DevFeed: [Using incidents to level up your teams](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-incidents-to-level-up-your-teams-11870.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/level-up-teams>)

Author: Lisa Karlin Curtis

Published: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [learn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that actively participating in incidents can accelerate an engineer's growth. A production API outage exposed the author to query plans, database behavior, troubleshooting, and collaboration, illustrating how incidents can turn unfamiliar systems into practical learning opportunities.

## Source excerpt

How to accelerate your career by running towards the fire.