GitHub's 24-Hour Database Reconciliation | The DevOps Postmortem

A brief 43-second loss of connectivity between GitHub's US East Coast data centers during routine maintenance caused its MySQL clusters to diverge. Choosing data integrity over uptime, GitHub spent more than 24 hours in a degraded state while reconciling writes that had landed in different regions. 📚 Sources: • October 21 post-incident analysis — https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-... 🔥 The DevOps Postmortem — real incidents, real lessons. Subscribe so you don't repeat them. #DevOps #SRE #Postmortem #CloudComputing #Kubernetes #IncidentResponse