A Short List of Software PostmortemsGood engineers learn from success and failure alike. Posted Aug 20, 2026 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Rembrandt, 1632, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Samuel Lowe 1 min readGitLab’s Postmortem of database outage of January 31 (2017)The Knight Capital Disaster: How a Deployment Error Cost $460 Million in 45 Minutes (2025)How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages (2026)How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages software development reading evergreen This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author. Share
