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on Mar. 26, 2020
In late February, GitHub experienced multiple service interruptions that resulted in degraded service for a total of eight hours and 14 minutes over four distinct events. Unexpected variations in database load, coupled with an unintended configuration issue introduced as a part of ongoing scaling …
Written by GitHub Engineering
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on Mar. 25, 2020
Last month GitHub reached some big milestones for our Security Bug Bounty program. As of February 2020, it’s been six years since we started accepting submissions. Over the years we’ve been able to invest in the bug bounty community through live events, private bug bounties, feature previews, and …
Written by GitHub Engineering
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on Mar. 18, 2020
As security researchers, the GitHub Security Lab team constantly embarks on an emotional journey with each new vulnerability challenge. The excitement of starting new research, the disappointment that comes with hitting a plateau, the energy it takes to stay focused and on target…and hopefully, the …
Written by GitHub Engineering
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on Feb. 28, 2020
Recently, we’ve had multiple service interruptions on GitHub.com. We know how important reliability of our service is for your projects and teams. We take this responsibility very seriously and apologize for these disruptions.These incidents were distinct events, but have a common theme of uncoveri…
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on Feb. 14, 2020
In the past year, GitHub engineers shipped GitHub Packages, Actions, Sponsors, Mobile, security advisories and updates, notifications, code navigation, and more. Needless to say, the development pace at GitHub is accelerated.With MySQL serving our backends, updating code requires changes to the und…
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on Feb. 12, 2020
We’re introducing an easier and more seamless way to work with GitHub from the command line—GitHub CLI, now in beta. Millions of developers rely on GitHub to make building software more fun and collaborative, and gh brings the GitHub experience right to your terminal.You can install GitHub CLI toda…