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A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs!

41 mentions on Hacker News by 39 people: 18 stories, 23 comments · first 2015-08-08 · latest 2026-06-13

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  1. …might be more helpful [1]. Just an addition, Code Smells [2] are a useful addition to patterns. [1] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems [2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-smells/
    comment by janpeuker · 2026-02-01 · in Real engineering failures instead of success stories
  2. Incident post mortems: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by _1tan · 2025-11-18 · in Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
  3. There's a repo with categories that gets updated every now and then https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by Yasuraka · 2024-10-14 · in Ask HN: What are some good publicly available postmortems to read?
  4. https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems is a fun read and has been around for a while.
    comment by wlonkly · 2023-04-19 · in AI Incident Database
  5. …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
    comment by gadders · 2022-01-21 · in Famous outages along with deep postmortems?
  6. https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by gfd · 2022-01-21 · in Famous outages along with deep postmortems?
  7. …but includes some of the kind of data you're looking for (post-mortems for outage events): https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by spmurrayzzz · 2021-12-22 · in Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
  8. …encountered. If you want to dive into postmortems, there are some repos linking other examples https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems https://codeberg.org/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
    comment by waz0wski · 2021-12-11 · in Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
  9. …the feedback on talks I’ve given about our startup Kintaba) so would love feedback or ideas! [1] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems - a commonly referenced existing list
    comment by quartz · 2021-06-10 · in Show HN: Discover and discuss incident postmortems from other companies
  10. …for emergencies. For tech, Dan Liu maintains a list of tech company incident public post-mortems: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by cjbprime · 2021-03-26 · in Ask HN: Literature on crisis response?
  11. …this from happening in the future. Fwiw this is a good archive of mostly well done post mortems: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by plandis · 2021-02-27 · in SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
  12. …reading post mortem posts about security incidents too. There's a repo in GitHub that I follow: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems A great source for what to do, what to avoid, etc. Not only for security.
    comment by kinow · 2020-08-02 · in A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering
  13. Here's a decent list: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by marksomnian · 2020-07-07 · in A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack
  14. Probably not what he's talking about but there's a nice collection here: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by maximeblais · 2019-07-22 · in GitHub is down
  15. I believe https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems is close to what you want.
    comment by cesarb · 2019-05-04 · in All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
  16. …Check out some of the cloud provider postmortems here for a few fascinating and detailed examples: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems You could say certain failures only occur and cascade under Special Circumstances. :)
    comment by fprog · 2019-05-03 · in Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions
  17. Just saw it already exists: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by alien_ · 2019-01-20 · in Kubernetes Failure Stories
  18. …possibly sitting on lost information (a password, possibly in the wild) for nearly a month. [0] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by shakna · 2018-11-30 · in Dell announces security breach
  19. …postmortems, like there is for 'falsehoods programmers believe' posts?", and found one at https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by cesarb · 2018-10-30 · in October 21 post-incident analysis
  20. https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by bad_login · 2018-03-20 · in Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)
  21. I don't, but danluu does! https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by cjbprime · 2017-03-03 · in Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
  22. https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
    comment by gry · 2016-08-08 · in Thousands of Delta passengers delayed by computer outage
  23. Great link there! Also check out his list of public postmortems at https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems PS. On HN you should use asterisks to italicize instead of > for quoting.
    comment by contingencies · 2016-04-13 · in Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11