Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral GitHub has published its account of this week nearly eight hour outage, tracing the developer pain to saturated load balancers, a faulty autoscaling policy, and a latent retry bug in Visual Studio Code. According to GitHub , problems began at 1328 UTC on August 17 and werent fully resolved until 2115 UTC – a 7 hour, 47 minute incident that produced elevated errors across Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and...
