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       GitHub had an almost 8 hour outage this month. Monthly commits have doubled since April and a critical system couldn’t handle the load. Client retry loops then made recovery worse.A design failure I hit early in my career. Exponential backoff, jitter and retry limits are your friends. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/