Global Development Stalled: Examining the Scale, Impact, and Vulnerabilities Behind GitHub’s Major Monday Outage
Executive Overview On a Monday morning that quickly descended into chaos for engineering organizations across the globe, a catastrophic technical outage paralyzed GitHub, the world’s largest source code hosting and collaboration platform. For several critical hours, the Microsoft-owned service—which underpins the daily workflows of approximately 180 million developers worldwide—experienced severe degradation and unprecedented error rates….