Saturday, 22 August, 2026
Too Hot to Handle: Explosive Growth Triggers Massive GitHub Outage
By TechShots Studio
GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov issued a public apology after a nearly 8-hour outage disrupted operations on August 17. He revealed that monthly commits doubled from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion, causing traffic to surge past platform capacity. An autoscaling failure and traffic amplification bugs triggered the crash, prompting GitHub to promise major infrastructure upgrades.
Read full story at TIMES OF INDIA