{
  "id": 2544595,
  "title": "GitHub CTO apologises to developers after one of the biggest outages",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/github-cto-apologises-to-developers-after-one-of-the-biggest-outages",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-22T08:43:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/github-cto-apologises-to-developers-after-one-of-the-biggest-outages-admits-since-april-monthly-commits-have-doubled-this-shows-pressure-on-our-systems-but-it-is-no-excuse-for-outages/articleshow/133420662.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "GitHub experienced a significant outage lasting nearly eight hours on August seventeenth. The platform failed because it ran out of storage capacity during a traffic peak. A critical infrastructure component in the Central US data center could not scale effectively. This led to widespread service disruptions affecting various GitHub features and tools. GitHub has apologized and is implementing…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}