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GitHub Promises 'Additional Guardrails' After Wednesday's Update Triggers Short Outage

Wednesday GitHub "broke itself," reports the Register, writing that "the Microsoft-owned code-hosting outfit says it made a change involving its database infrastructure, which sparked a global outage of its various services." Or, as the Verge puts it, GitHub experienced "some major issues" which a...

Wednesday GitHub "broke itself," reports the Register, writing that "the Microsoft-owned code-hosting outfit says it made a change involving its database infrastructure, which sparked a global outage of its various services. "Or, as the Verge puts it, GitHub experienced "some major issues" which apparently lasted for 36 minutes: When we first published this story, navigating to the main GitHub website showed an error message that said "no server is currently available to service your request," but the website was working again soon after. We are also prioritizing several repair items such as faster rollback functionality and more resilience to dependency failures.

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