Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network(nine.ch)
19 points by nine_ch | 16 comments
Blog post from Swiss cloud provider Nine describing a three-day DDoS attack in August and what it revealed about weaknesses in their network.
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15 stories tagged postmortem, newest first.
August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem(blog.xkeeper.net)
15 points by panic | 6 comments
A blog postmortem by xkeeper describing an August 27 DDoS attack against The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) wiki and how it was handled.
The August 17 outage(github.blog)
611 points by 0xedb | 707 comments
GitHub blog post giving an update on the August 17 outage and the steps GitHub is taking to improve reliability.
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours(blog.terrygodier.com)
568 points by satvikpendem | 255 comments
Terry Godier's blog post apologizing for problems with Dark Hours, a website he launched to show what can be seen in the night sky.
Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension(blog.railway.com)
431 points by 0xedb | 244 comments
Railway's incident report on its May 19, 2026 outage caused by the suspension of its Google Cloud Platform account.
Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise(tanstack.com)
1047 points by varunsharma07 | 435 comments
GitHub issue on TanStack Router reporting that several latest npm releases are potentially compromised, linking to a StepSecurity analysis of a self-spreading supply-chain attack.
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports(anthropic.com)
905 points by mfiguiere | 673 comments
Anthropic engineering post explaining how recent Claude Code quality complaints traced to three separate changes, and what the company is changing in response.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025(blog.cloudflare.com)
755 points by meetpateltech | 548 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Dane Knecht describing the Cloudflare service outage that occurred on December 5, 2025.
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region(aws.amazon.com)
487 points by meetpateltech | 150 comments
AWS post-event summary describing the October 19-20, 2025 Amazon DynamoDB service disruption and related impacts in the US-East-1 region.
A postmortem of three recent issues(anthropic.com)
361 points by moatmoat | 112 comments
Anthropic engineering blog post giving a technical postmortem of three bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses, and what is changing.
DrawAFish.com Postmortem(aldenhallak.com)
363 points by hallak | 99 comments
A blog postmortem by the creator of DrawAFish.com describing a security incident on the site on August 3, 2025.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025(blog.cloudflare.com)
526 points by nomaxx117 | 351 comments
Cloudflare blog post describing the incident affecting its 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver on July 14, 2025.
Thanksgiving 2023 security incident(blog.cloudflare.com)
592 points by nomaxx117 | 292 comments
Cloudflare blog post by Matthew Prince and colleagues describing a threat actor detected on its systems on Thanksgiving Day 2023 and the company's response.
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)(dougseven.com)
416 points by sathishmanohar | 254 comments
Doug Seven's 2014 blog post recounting how a botched software deployment at Knight Capital caused massive trading losses, framed as a DevOps cautionary tale.
Tarsnap outage postmortem(mail.tarsnap.com)
520 points by anderiv | 299 comments
Colin Percival's mailing-list post-mortem on the July 2–3, 2023 Tarsnap outage caused by a failed EC2 server in us-east-1, and how service was restored.