The Microsoft-owned developer platform was down for hours on Monday, which is becoming a bit of a habit. “If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down,” CTO Vlad Fedorov says, blaming the outage on a capacity failure after traffic hit “a new peak.” [Link: The August 17 outage, and the work ahead | https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ | The GitHub Blog]

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

The Microsoft-owned developer platform was down for hours on Monday, which is becoming a bit of a habit. “If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down,” CTO Vlad…