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GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

Techmeme 20 August 2026 1h ago
GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
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Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog : GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center — An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. — On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes.
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