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Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.
In 2018, after 43 seconds of connectivity issues between their East and West coast datacenters and a rapid promotion of a new primary, GitHub ended up with unique data written to two different databases. As detailed in the postmortem, this resulted in 24 hours of degraded service. This episode spends a lot of time on […]
The Downtime Project
Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.