AIGitHub Blogabout 2 hours ago
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
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GitHub's August 17 outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, disrupting core services including Copilot. The cause was a capacity failure, not a code change, as monthly commits grew from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion since April. GitHub added 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of storage.
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