Company
Date Published
Author
Chris Nagele
Word count
669
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Postmark team has recently experienced several service outages due to major DDOS attacks, transit provider issues with Telia, and hardware failures, resulting in connectivity issues, delays, and missing activity. The most recent outage occurred on June 20th, causing delays of up to 5 minutes for Inbound processing and Outbound sending, as well as missing activity and stats records. To address these issues, the team is working on code changes, separating Inbound processing from Elasticsearch, and making RabbitMQ more resilient to increased load. They are also taking steps to isolate paths to services to reduce impact and add DDOS protection. The Postmark team apologizes for the inconvenience and promises to correct these issues to provide an even more reliable service.