Episode Synopsis "GitHub’s 43 Second Network Partition"

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 […]

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• Kinesis Hits the Thread Limit
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• Auth0’s Seriously Congested Database
• Talkin’ Testing with Sujay Jayakar
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• Auth0 Silently Loses Some Indexes
• One Subtle Regex Takes Down Cloudflare
• Monzo’s 2019 Cassandra Outage
• Gitlab’s 2017 Postgres Outage
• Slack vs TGWs
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