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on Jun. 3, 2021
Introduction In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for API requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Actions and the GitHub Packages service, specifically the GitHub Packages Container registry service. May 8 06:46 UTC (46 minutes) This inciden…
Written by GitHub Engineering
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on May. 26, 2021
Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs and OpenTracing for request traces. While we have somewhat standardized what we emit, we tend to solve the same problems over…
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on May. 18, 2021
GitHub is the home for software development teams and is the place where they collaborate and build. For larger organizations, you might have a dedicated reporting team that wants to export this activity at a granular level, so it can be modified and presented for audits. GitHub provides a powerful…
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on May. 10, 2021
GitHub has been at the forefront of security key adoption for many years. We were an early adopter of Universal 2nd Factor (“U2F”) and were also one of the first sites to transition to Webauthn. We’re always on the lookout for new standards that both increase security and usability. Today we’re tak…
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on May. 5, 2021
In April, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for API requests and the GitHub Packages service, specifically the GitHub Packages Container registry service. April 1 21:30 UTC (lasting one hour and 34 minutes) This incident was caused by fa…
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on May. 4, 2021
At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast, and accessible as possible. For a product as large as GitHub, this can be quite the task. Like many front-end codebases,…