One of the most striking things about this report is the scale that GitHub has now reached: the whole incident apparently lasted only 10 minutes, but during tha

One of the most striking things about this report is the scale that GitHub has now reached: the whole incident apparently lasted only 10 minutes, but during that time 17 million requests were sent to their git proxy. It's obviously unfortunate in this case, since even a relatively small and quickly fixed bug affecting a tiny proportion of requests still had serious consequences. However, it's a remarkable achievement (if also a little terrifying for the software development industry from a single-point-of-failure perspective).