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Famous outages along with deep postmortems?

#1
I just finished reading the Roblox outage postmortem (trending on HN: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/). I learned a lot reading about it and found myself thinking "surely there's other well-written postmortems that are a doozy". Does anyone know a good resource where I can find a compilation of such outages? If they're classified/tagged then even better :)

Re: Famous outages along with deep postmortems?

#2
Not a compilation, but here are a couple of interesting postmortems I recall from my time at PagerDuty: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke... https://status.pagerduty.com/incidents/v2vrgccbtgxn

The second one was a 30+ hour outage that forced us to really up our incident management game.

Re: Famous outages along with deep postmortems?

#5
If you'd like to go beyond technical postmortems, I've found the IAEA reports on radiological accidents etc to make very interesting technical reading. Abstractly there is a often something to be learned about having a good playbook to deal with specific events.

https://www.iaea.org/topics/accident-reports

Re: Famous outages along with deep postmortems?

#7
I did start a site where I was logging what I could at outagereports.net, but I let it lapse when cpanel fees shot up. Dan Luu's site referenced below is a good source [1]. I think also there is a big list on github somewhere of all k8s-caused outages.

[1] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

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