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Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report
Incident report for the GitHub outage on January 2-3, 2025
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this outage and are working tirelessly to minimize dependencies and create fallbacks to ensure reliability. Refunding credits for users that tried to use the product during the outage Improve our observability of important events by exporting into a db that is good for analytics like BigQuery or Clickhouse. Migrate all existing repositories in our private Github org to S3 Review other critical infrastructure partners and make sure we have a direct line to them in case of emergency, ideally a shared slack channel but at least email/phone number to someone.
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