GitHub’s 43 Second Network Partition

26/04/2021 53 min
GitHub’s 43 Second Network Partition

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Episode Synopsis

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 […]