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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.

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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

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