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GitHub.com spent over three hours in a widening incident on August 17, 2026, with API requests, Actions, Git operations, Pages, Pull Requests, Issues, Webhooks, SAML/OIDC, and Copilot all degraded. Here is the real timeline, what "20% error rates" actually costs a dev team, and how to keep shipping
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Standard WooCommerce checkouts lock the database and fail at scale. Here is how we fix inventory and payment race conditions without breaking gateways.
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