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Update on 1/28 service outage

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Company
Date Published
Author
Sam Lambert
Word Count
161
Company Posts That Month
7
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Post removed?
No
Summary

On January 28, 2016, GitHub.com experienced a significant service outage lasting two hours and six minutes due to a power disruption at its primary data center, which led to a cascading failure affecting critical services. The service was fully restored by 02:29am UTC after engineers worked to resolve the issue. Recognizing the impact on the development workflows of millions of users and businesses, GitHub expressed regret for the disruption and committed to enhancing its resilience and response capabilities. Investigations into the incident are ongoing, with promises to share findings and improvements with the community.

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