Curious to see the postmortem here. Who makes production changes on Thanksgiving...

bifrost · on Nov 27, 2021

You don't want to know the answer to this question. I'm totally serious too.

daxfohl · on Nov 27, 2021

Granted, it's probably the best time of the year for github to break, precisely because nobody else is pushing production changes....

daxfohl · on Nov 28, 2021

I don't see any postmortems or any root causes on their incident history page. Just "problem resolved". Do they not make these public?

isbvhodnvemrwvn · on Nov 28, 2021

Does GitHub have employees outside of the US?

daxfohl · on Nov 28, 2021

Yes but, given Thanksgiving weekend accounts for a huge percentage of annual retail sales in the US, most companies are reluctant to let anyone touch anything even remotely connected to production that weekend. (My company has been in production freeze for three weeks now.)