TLDR Tech / InfoSec
Addressing GitHub's Recent Availability Issues
Between February and March, GitHub experienced several major incidents that dropped the company below its availability standards. GitHub's CTO broke down three of the major incidents, one involving a database becoming overloaded and two involving failover solutions that were insufficient or didn't function properly. Moving forward, GitHub is taking on several efforts to increase the platform's stability as well as increasing its scalability by migrating to Azure and decoupling critical components.
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