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Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

On Saturday, December 22nd we had a significant outage and we want to take the time to explain what happened. This was one of the worst outages in the history…

On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…

Here’s a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we’re doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first “real” workday for…

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

github-rebase(1) – Forward-port awesome projects to the updated upstream head Featured Project memcached is the battle tested in-memory key/value store that helps power GitHub among countless other sites and makes…

Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…

Following three months of near 100% uptime, we’ve just been through three major outages in as many days. I wanted to take some time to detail the problems and what…

Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…

We will be having a maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:59 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=18&year=2009&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). A very small amount of web unavailability will be required during this period. We will be upgrading…

On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…

In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We’re aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…

Want to get on Rebase? Find out how. Stats Breakdown Featured Project dynomite is an open-source Erlang implementation of Amazon’s Dynamo, a distributed key-data storage that strives for high availability.…