Content by Vlad Fedorov (3)

Vlad Fedorov shares GitHub’s write-up of the August 17 outage, what failed under peak traffic, and what the team is changing to reduce the chance and blast radius of future incidents. It covers capacity shortfalls, recovery actions, and concrete reliability work like retry limits, safer rollouts, and expanded Azure footprint.

Vlad Fedorov shares what GitHub is changing after two recent availability incidents, including scaling work driven by rapid growth in pull requests and API usage, plus concrete reliability efforts like service isolation, caching improvements, and continued migration to Azure and a future multi-cloud posture.

Vlad Fedorov discusses the recent series of GitHub outages, pinpointing their technical causes and highlighting steps—such as a major migration to Azure—that GitHub's engineering team is taking to improve reliability and incident response for developers.