Incidents

116 objects in the archive · 115 ranked picks

Outage and data-loss postmortems written by the people involved

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101
Bitstamp Incident Report 2-20-15
scribd.com20151 submissionHN thread
45 pts
46 cmts
102
How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis
startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com20091 submissionHN thread
45 pts
12 cmts
103
Root cause analysis by asking "Why" 5 times.
blog.inklingmarkets.com20091 submissionHN thread
43 pts
20 cmts
104
Google API infrastructure outage incident report
googledevelopers.blogspot.com20131 submissionHN thread
43 pts
9 cmts
105
May 2, 2016 Security Release Post-Mortem
about.gitlab.com20161 submissionHN thread
43 pts
9 cmts
106
How We Moved from MongoDB to Postgres Without Downtime and Cut Our Costs by 30%?
voucherify.io20211 submissionHN thread
43 pts
5 cmts
107
Basecamp Outage Post-mortem
m.signalvnoise.com20181 submissionHN thread
42 pts
18 cmts
108
Bitbucket Downtime Post-Mortem
blog.bitbucket.org20121 submissionHN thread
42 pts
11 cmts
109
Kagi update and outage post-mortem
kagi.com20241 submissionHN thread
42 pts
2 cmts
110
Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
news.gandi.net20251 submissionHN thread
41 pts
51 cmts
111
1PB data loss fears as Australian Tax Office suffers HP storage crash
afr.com20161 submissionHN thread
41 pts
9 cmts
112
GitHub streak: End-game and post-mortem
manishearth.github.io20151 submissionHN thread
40 pts
29 cmts
113
Google+ Community For Postmortems
plus.google.com20121 submissionHN thread
40 pts
1 cmts
114
Morris Worm Incident Report #1 (1988)
foofus.com20131 submissionHN thread
39 pts
26 cmts
115
Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report
lovable.dev20251 submissionHN thread
27 pts
39 cmts