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I appreciate the honest feedback. We could have done better communicating about the problem. We've been marking single host failures in the dashboard for affected users and using o…

Another status update from GitHub: "We have migrated to an unaffected DNS provider. Some users may experience problems with cached results as the change propagates." We're maintain…

I'm a GitHub employee and want to let everyone know we're aware of the problems this incident is causing and are actively working to mitigate the impact. "A global event is affecti…

I'm a GitHub employee and want to let everyone know we're aware of the problems this incident is causing and are actively working to mitigate the impact. "A global event is affecti…

Sure. Feel free to call it anycast then. I usually hear anycast routing used in the context of achieving failover or routing flows to the closest server/POP, but there is probably …

Anycast usually implies traffic will be directed to the nearest node advertising that prefix. The GLB directors leverage ECMP which provides the ability to balance flows across man…

A "whole" piece of software would require you to have made the same data center design decisions we've made at GitHub. While some of our choices are opinionated, I think you'll fin…

I think you're referring to the GitHub Engineering blog post [1] about our git storage tier. We [2] store your code on at least 3 servers, which is an improvement in many ways from…

This is really great work. Do you have any plans to open source some (or all) of the code behind Silverton?

GitHub's physical infrastructure team doesn't dictate what technologies our engineers can run on our hardware. We are interested in providing reliable server resources in a easily …

It's here at CodeConf! https://gist.github.com/jssjr/018717ddcb81b76e1829#file-img_...

We use collectd extensively and it is wonderful software. Brubeck and collectd do very different jobs.

We did not try out statsite, but it also looks great! Brubeck has been under development internally since October 2012. We're really excited to be able to share it with everyone.

Indeed!

This sounds like a great idea for a future blog post. Thanks for the suggestion!

There are two posts on the blog right now: Workload Analysis with MySQL's Performance Schema http://githubengineering.com/using-mysql-performance-schema-... Browser Monitoring for …

http://gocurb.com/ has been doing exactly that for many years.