GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility
The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.
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Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0
GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.
Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future.