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2026-08-30
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Retries didn't make GitHub resilient. They DDoS'd it.
GitHub's 7-hour outage on August 17, 2026, was exacerbated by a retry loop in the VS Code Copilot extension that overwhelmed the Copilot Token Service with up to 100,000 requests per second, 14 times …