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The Domino Effect: How a Tiny Autoscaler Blind Spot Took Down GitHub for 7 Hours
On August 17, 2026, GitHub suffered a massive 7-hour outage ( IST Aug 17 18:58 - 02:45 Aug 18). If you were trying to review pull requests, trigger GitHub Actions, or write code with GitHub Copilot that day, you likely hit a wall. Web and API error rates surged to 20%, and archive downloads plummeted with 50% failure rates. In a candid post-mortem The August 17 outage, and the work ahead, GitHub’s CTO Vlad Fedorov explained that exponential platform growth had exposed critic
Sathish Kumar
3 hours ago5 min read
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