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Postmortems, indexed by how things break

Engineers learn more from failures
than from clean diagrams.

A curated index of public engineering postmortems — not another list of links, but a map of how systems actually fail. Pick a failure class and see who it bit, why it spread, and the one transferable lesson. Every entry links to the original writeup.

Browse by failure class

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A seed set, growing. Built on the shoulders of the public postmortem community — Dan Luu's post-mortems, the k8s failure stories, and Lorin Hochstein's incident list. The difference here is the taxonomy: failure class first, company second.

Know one we're missing? The whole point is that the list keeps growing.

Built by Shubham Ojha · @claudeabuser · LinkedIn