13 GitHub outages in 17 days, and still no collective root cause
GitHub logged its 13th separate incident in the first 17 days of August, each with its own individual RCA. Treated singly, they read as isolated blips; strung together, two recurring failure modes emerge — capacity headroom and change management — that nobody at GitHub has synthesized. That gap is the real story for reliability teams: per-outage postmortems keep missing the systemic pattern underneath.