GitHub CTO Apologises After 8-Hour Outage Caused by Storage Capacity Failure
GitHub suffered a major outage on August 17 that lasted close to eight hours, disrupting services for developers worldwide. The platform ran out of storage capacity during a peak traffic period, triggering the widespread failure. A critical infrastructure component at GitHub's Central US data center was unable to scale to meet demand. The outage impacted multiple GitHub features and developer tools across the platform. GitHub's CTO issued an apology and the company said it is rolling out fixes to prevent a similar incident from recurring.
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