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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

github.blog · first added by @mikem · 2026-09-13 · 4 upvotes

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* Blog by @uptime

* Issue #806 by @hnl [startup_news]

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* The August 17 outage

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* Incident with GitHub.com

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* AWS Builder Center

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* Google SRE: Load Balancing with Client Side Throttling

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* Exponential Backoff And Jitter | Amazon Web Services

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* XZ Utils backdoor - Wikipedia

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