These days when I see a GitHub post that they are experiencing a DDoS attack I have a slightly cynical reaction to it. I was at a software conference where we h

These days when I see a GitHub post that they are experiencing a DDoS attack I have a slightly cynical reaction to it. I was at a software conference where we had thousands of people hitting GitHub to clone projects for workshops all that same time. They shut us down and said they were experiencing a DDoS... We were lucky that a couple of GitHub employees were at the conference and were able to contact the main office to get things straightened out.