That was a 7 hours interplanetary outage because of Docker. All that’s left from the outage is a few messages on a GitHub issue. There was no postmortem. It

That was a 7 hours interplanetary outage because of Docker. All that’s left from the outage is a few messages on a GitHub issue. There was no postmortem. It had little (none?) tech news or press coverage, in spite of the catastrophic failure. This is incorrect. There were github issues, HN posts, and so on. Solomon Hykes posted on Github [0] and HN [1]: Hi everyone. I work at Docker. First, my apologies for the outage. I consider our package infrastructure as critical infrastructure, both for the free and commercial versions of Docker. It's true that we offer better support for the commercial version (it's one if its features), but that should not apply to fundamental things like being able to download your packages. The team is working on the issue and will continue to give updates here. We are taking this seriously. Some of you pointed out that the response time and use of communication channels seem inadequate, for example the @dockerststus bot has not mentioned the issue when it was detected. I share the opinion but I don't know the full story yet; the post-mortem will tell us for sure what went wrong. At the moment the team is focusing on fixing the issue and I don't want to distract them from that. Once the post-mortem identifies what went wrong, we will take appropriate corrective action. I suspect part of it will be better coordination between core engineers and infrastructure engineers (2 distinct groups within Docker). Thanks and sorry again for the inconvenience. [0] https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-223326996 https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-2... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823231