GitHub’s Great Timeout: A Comedy of Errors and Outages

GitHub’s services are facing a “major outage,” leaving users stuck in a digital waiting room. Performing pull requests and viewing issues are among the affected services. GitHub is working to fix caching infrastructure issues. It seems like GitHub is having a bit of a “commitment” issue today!

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Published: January 30, 2025 3:08 pmAdded: February 5, 2025 at 3:34 amAssembled by: The Editor
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Hot Take:

GitHub is going through a rollercoaster of technical mishaps, making it feel more like GitWhoops. It seems like every few months, the code repository giant decides to take a little nap, leaving developers worldwide to twiddle their thumbs and contemplate life without version control. Maybe it’s time for GitHub to hire a therapist for their caching infrastructure, because clearly, it’s got some unresolved issues!

Key Points:

  • GitHub is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple services.
  • The incident is linked to problems with their caching infrastructure.
  • Users are facing timeouts and various errors on the platform.
  • Past incidents in 2022 and 2023 have seen similar service disruptions.
  • GitHub is currently monitoring improvements in their services.

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