GitHub Experiences Major Service Disruption, Resolved After Eight Hours

According to PANews, Microsoft's code hosting platform GitHub experienced a significant service disruption starting on July 28 at 16:50 UTC (July 29 at 0:50 UTC+8). The outage affected core functionalities such as Git operations, API requests, pull requests, and issues. The official status page indicated that after implementing measures like increasing server capacity and adjusting rate limits, the issues were resolved by July 29 at 1:23 UTC. The total downtime exceeded eight hours, and a detailed analysis of the cause will be released later.