Popular source code management portal, GitHub experienced a minor outage today. The outage occurred around 5:30 PM today (Lagos time) according to Techcrunch, when users started to experience issues with the service and weren’t able to check in new code and make pull requests.
The cause of today’s outage remains unclear but it appears the company belittled its effect at first.
We are currently experiencing some minor service outages.
— GitHub Status (@githubstatus) July 31, 2017
But, it upgraded the status to “major service outage since it affected the GitHub web interface some minutes later.
We are currently experiencing major service outages.
— GitHub Status (@githubstatus) July 31, 2017
The next update showed that the problem was being faced headlong:
We are continuing to investigate an elevated error rate in web requests to https://t.co/IEoI8IWMw9.
— GitHub Status (@githubstatus) July 31, 2017
The company update an hour later showed that the service has been restored and everything is back to normal.
Everything operating normally.
— GitHub Status (@githubstatus) July 31, 2017
This is not the first time GitHub will be facing a major crisis. Recall that back in 2015, GitHub was the victim of a major DDoS attack that plagued the service for a couple of days. A similar attack also took the service down back in 2012.
Well did the users take the recent downtime?
Some people felt lucky:
https://twitter.com/lunorian/status/892121001856782337
Some made it an occasion to teach a moral lesson:
y’know, if your entire system grinds to a halt when github goes down, you are doing something manifestly wrong
— kinit ⚧🧫☣️ ⚧ (@euprax1a) July 31, 2017
Some thought about Armageddon:
https://twitter.com/praeludia/status/892098828740046848
Some were comical:
To all my @github ops folks… pic.twitter.com/wC7DqKpsIU
— Charles Marshall (@cs_marshall) July 31, 2017
Some were angry:
the next time i get an email notification because some dumbass is using github issues like a forum i'm posting goatse in the thread
— reply guy who favs his own tweets (@early90spants) July 31, 2017
And the others were bright anyway:
Happy to see #github is back up to stable. That had to be a stressful scramble to fix. Glad you're back up and running @github :clap: pic.twitter.com/NE4AiGoMrB
— CS (@maker_schmitz) July 31, 2017
So, how did you feel around that period?
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