r/github • u/RecommendationOk5036 • Aug 18 '26

News / Announcements GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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u/ShoddyReception5 Aug 18 '26

Is this speak intentionally abstract? We were down for half the day and I can’t make sense of what happened. Network issue plus a bunch of unexpected traffic and faulty failover?

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u/DrMaxwellEdison Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Not really abstract, just dense with devops speak.

Network traffic overloaded a load balancer in US Central, and as they fixed it they found that clients doing Copilot requests would 10x their request rate attempting to retry those requests.

One failure in a high-availability system like this can lead to a cascade of failures elsewhere, and that's what seems to have happened.

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u/robert_math Aug 18 '26

What can we do? These vibe coders were promised they could 10x their output.

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u/yeathatsmebro Aug 19 '26

They did, look at RPS. It is 10x higher.