Following its extended outage on Monday, GitHub says capacity issues — not a code or configuration change — led to several of its services being inaccessible for over seven hours. In the developer platform own words, traffic reached a new peak, and a critical infrastructure component in our Central US data center failed to scale with it. The change in demand that caused the traffic spike is dramatic. Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion, GitHub says. That...
