GitHub Outage: What Happened and How to Avoid Dependence
Watch on YouTube The August 17 GitHub outage exposed failures in the API, Actions, Copilot, authentication, and deployments. What happened, and why did it last 7 hours and 47 minutes?
The August 17 GitHub outage exposed failures in the API, Actions, Copilot, authentication, and deployments. What happened, and why did it last 7 hours and 47 minutes?
We analyze network saturation, concurrency limits, retries that multiplied traffic, and regional dependencies that worsened the incident. We also explain how to protect your teams with repository mirrors, self-hosted runners, caches, and continuity plans.
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