# A few words on the recent outages

DevFeed: [A few words on the recent outages](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-few-words-on-the-recent-outages-70713.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/a-few-words-on-the-recent-outages/>)

Author: Tim Sharpe

Published: 2010-09-25T03:48:44Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Load Balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/load-balancing.md>), [infrastructure monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-monitoring.md>), [cloud service outage management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-service-outage-management.md>)

Tags: [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [recover](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recover.md>), [standby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/standby.md>), [the-library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-library.md>)

## AI overview

The site's active load balancer ran short of resources during a period of high traffic and a resource-intensive background job. The standby balancer failed to start all required resources, leaving the site unavailable. The team increased load balancer capacity and emphasized monitoring all parts of the infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

While we've been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we've...