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GitHub 2022: The Database Service Incident That Exposed Cross-Service Dependencies

GitHub’s March 2022 outages showed how one shared MySQL cluster with too little headroom could impair Git, pull requests, Actions, Packages, Codespaces, Pages, and API writes together.

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GitLab 2017: The Accidental Database Deletion and the Backups That Did Not Work

GitLab's 2017 database incident turned a wrong-server deletion into a major outage because replication and several backup paths could not supply a sufficiently fresh, trusted restore.

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