Post

Write-up on the giga-outage and more from GitHub. Every chart I have seen internally too is literally doing a hockeystick on growth. IMHO this is also a canary in the coalmine for many other systems and products who have an API github.blog/news-insight...

github.blogThe August 17 outage, and the work aheadAn update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

20/8/26, 11:38 pm8 reposts25 likes

fry69

@fry69.dev

21 Aug

FYI: HN 🧵 ->

Hacker News Companion@hncompanion.com

Commit volume on GitHub jumped from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion in months, but the August 17 outage came down to basic failure handling: a VS Code retry loop hammering the backend. Commenters saw it less as an anomaly and more as neglected error paths. #devops 1/4

Selio

@selio.bsky.social

21 Aug

Looks like all this new load will require more infrastructure to scale with demand, hopefully the costs for all that demand aren’t ridiculously high right now.

Jeremy Lewi

@jeremy.lewi.us

21 Aug

Doubling the number of commits per month since April is wild.