reliability engineering

  1. Designing for Downtime: Lessons from GitHub’s Feb 2026 Outage

    GitHub’s platform suffered a multi-service disruption on 9–10 February 2026 that left Actions queues stalled, pull‑request pages slow or erroring, notifications delayed by up to an hour, and parts of Copilot operating with policy propagation delays — a messy reminder that even the dominant...
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  2. January 2026 Windows Patch Tuesday Sparks Out of Band Emergency Updates

    Microsoft was forced into a rare series of out‑of‑band emergency patches after January’s security rollup triggered system crashes, boot failures, and application regressions that left both home users and enterprises scrambling for fixes and workarounds. Background What happened, in plain terms...
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