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Welcome to Postmortems
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April 14, 2019
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Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (1988)
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29
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August 31, 2020
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Three easy bug fixes (saving millions)
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27
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August 31, 2020
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Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before
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54
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August 2, 2020
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Samsung Blu-ray players bricked by official XML
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52
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July 18, 2020
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Cascading failure at Slack caused by rollback
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57
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July 12, 2020
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Apple unfixed a fix, allowing a new exploit. Again
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55
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July 11, 2020
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Finding a lost satellite by slide rule in 1964
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August 16, 2013
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One bit-flipping NIC took down Amazon's cloud storage (2008)
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85
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May 11, 2020
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A word processor that formatted the hard drive (repeatably)
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May 7, 2020
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Accidental Nuclear War: a Timeline of Close Calls
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76
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May 4, 2020
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How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond
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65
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May 2, 2020
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Synchronised phone-home crashes cell tower (2003)
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85
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May 2, 2020
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Apple web page outage caused cellular congestion (2012)
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90
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April 30, 2020
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Another one-line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem
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80
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April 27, 2020
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Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
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April 23, 2020
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Dozens of root cause analysis write-ups
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April 23, 2020
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SpaceX failed to land a booster (March 2020)
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103
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April 23, 2020
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Free book: "Building Secure & Reliable Systems" (Google, O'Reilly)
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106
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April 19, 2020
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Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage (April 15, 2020)
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April 16, 2020
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Apollo 13 Service Module Damage: A Photographic Analysis
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86
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April 13, 2020
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Boeing 787 must be turned off and on every 51 days
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April 10, 2020
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Trains in Switzerland must not have 256 axles
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125
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April 10, 2020
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16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe
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April 7, 2020
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A problem at the bottom of the Google stack
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March 24, 2020
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Bungie twice rolls back user accounts in Destiny online game
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85
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March 4, 2020
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A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14
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103
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February 17, 2020
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Accounting software class action (2009 to 2020)
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152
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February 2, 2020
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Y2038 error, in pension calculations, $2 million to fix
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142
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January 20, 2020
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Soyuz 23 landing (1976)
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143
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January 19, 2020
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