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How GitHub's Database Self-Destructed in 43 Seconds

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A brief maintenance accident turns for the worse as GitHub's database automatically fails over and breaks the website. Sources: https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/ https://github.blog/2016-12-08-orchestrator-github/ https://github.blog/2018-06-20-mysql-high-availability-at-github/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18272928 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9q94am/github_major_service_outage/ https://hub.packtpub.com/github-down-for-over-7-hours-due-to-failure-in-its-data-storage-system/ https://github.blog/2017-10-12-evolution-of-our-data-centers/ Chapters: 0:00 Part 1: Intro 1:25 Part 2: GitHub's database explained 3:40 Part 3: The 43 seconds 5:04 Part 4: Fail back or not? 6:54 Part 5: Recovery process 10:32 Part 6: Aftermath Notes: - Funnily enough in this blog post from 4 months prior to the incident https://github.blog/2018-06-20-mysql-high-availability-at-github/ they specifically explained how cross-data-center failovers could be carried out successfully Music: - Hitman by Kevin MacLeod - Blue Mood by Robert Munzinger - Pixelland by Kevin MacLeod - Dumb as a Box by Dan Lebowitz
Posted June 23, 2023
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