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A List of Post-Mortems

174 points by ezhil 6y ago

cee_el123 6y ago
Awesome.. been looking for something like this since 2 days
tilt_error 6y ago
I seem to be one of the lucky 10.000 today. I was not aware that this kind of information is collected like this.
- deleted 6y ago
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ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
That is awesome! Thanks!
Semaphor 6y ago
This is cool, I always find postmortems interesting. The list has been around for a while, here are two other HN discussions: August 2015 (17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028353 January 2019 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18875834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18875834 And the announcement blogpost: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/
willemmerson 6y ago
For anyone that actually has to maintain servers, this is terrifying.
ordo_inf 6y ago
> Sweden. Use of different rulers by builders caused the Vasa to be more heavily built on its port side and the ship's designer, not having built a ship with two gun decks before, overbuilt the upper decks, leading to a design that was top heavy. Twenty minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, the ship heeled to port and sank. I don't know if this belongs in the list. xD
politelemon 6y ago
This is a nice view of a facet or level of transparency from companies.
daitangio 6y ago
Very interesting. To bookmark when teaching to junior. Error happens: you must have recovery procedure.
timvdalen 6y ago
Off topic but is the username inclusion in the domain for github.com in the HN submission new? I've never noticed that before.
- tosh 6y ago
  I love these tiny improvements
  - zaroth 6y ago
    What if you want to see all posts from “github.com” overall? You can still modify the HN url to see that by removing the path. If you do partial paths on other domains it doesn’t seem to work.
- jwilk 6y ago
  It was just "(github.com)" yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20201010054131/https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://web.archive.org/web/20201010054131/https://news.ycom...
isbvhodnvemrwvn 6y ago
On a side note - many of these are good samples of technical writing. They introduce the audience to the environment where failure occurred, but in a way that doesn't take the focus away from the issue itself.
rachelbythebay 6y ago
At least one of these is just terrible. The “Facebook” one is written by some firm trying to hawk their monitoring stuff. It implies you can understand what happened inside from glorified traceroutes. What actually happened that night is far more complicated, and has nothing to do with people intentionally disconnecting the site from the internet.
rendall 6y ago
I accidentally clicked on the name not the comments link. It seems like this recurs often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/danluu https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/danluu
Mandatum 6y ago
Can we also get some behind-NDA/service desk post mortems? IBM, Oracle Cloud, MuleSoft, Salesforce, etc. Having to submit a fucking service request to know why your business stopped running is a PITA.

174 points by ezhil 6y ago

cee_el123 6y ago

Awesome.. been looking for something like this since 2 days

tilt_error 6y ago

I seem to be one of the lucky 10.000 today. I was not aware that this kind of information is collected like this.

deleted 6y ago
[deleted]

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

That is awesome! Thanks!

Semaphor 6y ago

This is cool, I always find postmortems interesting. The list has been around for a while, here are two other HN discussions: August 2015 (17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028353 January 2019 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18875834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18875834 And the announcement blogpost: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/ http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/

willemmerson 6y ago

For anyone that actually has to maintain servers, this is terrifying.

ordo_inf 6y ago

> Sweden. Use of different rulers by builders caused the Vasa to be more heavily built on its port side and the ship's designer, not having built a ship with two gun decks before, overbuilt the upper decks, leading to a design that was top heavy. Twenty minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, the ship heeled to port and sank. I don't know if this belongs in the list. xD

politelemon 6y ago

This is a nice view of a facet or level of transparency from companies.

daitangio 6y ago

Very interesting. To bookmark when teaching to junior. Error happens: you must have recovery procedure.

timvdalen 6y ago

Off topic but is the username inclusion in the domain for github.com in the HN submission new? I've never noticed that before.

tosh 6y ago
I love these tiny improvements
- zaroth 6y ago
  What if you want to see all posts from “github.com” overall? You can still modify the HN url to see that by removing the path. If you do partial paths on other domains it doesn’t seem to work.
jwilk 6y ago
It was just "(github.com)" yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20201010054131/https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://web.archive.org/web/20201010054131/https://news.ycom...

isbvhodnvemrwvn 6y ago

On a side note - many of these are good samples of technical writing. They introduce the audience to the environment where failure occurred, but in a way that doesn't take the focus away from the issue itself.

rachelbythebay 6y ago

At least one of these is just terrible. The “Facebook” one is written by some firm trying to hawk their monitoring stuff. It implies you can understand what happened inside from glorified traceroutes. What actually happened that night is far more complicated, and has nothing to do with people intentionally disconnecting the site from the internet.

rendall 6y ago

I accidentally clicked on the name not the comments link. It seems like this recurs often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/danluu https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/danluu

Mandatum 6y ago

Can we also get some behind-NDA/service desk post mortems? IBM, Oracle Cloud, MuleSoft, Salesforce, etc. Having to submit a fucking service request to know why your business stopped running is a PITA.