Aug 22, 2026 · 10 min · 9 segments
On August 17, 2026, GitHub went dark for 7 hours and 47 minutes, freezing Issues, Pull Requests, APIs, Actions, and Copilot for developers around the world. GitHub's postmortem blames saturated load…
So today we've put together a full overview of a major event that affects, well, practically every business that relies on software.
Which is basically everyone, right?
Pretty much.
And this wasn't just a brief headache.
No, not at all.
It lasted a brutal seven hours and 47 minutes.
Yeah.
Specifically from 1328 UTC to 2115 UTC.
And for anyone who doesn't live and breathe this stuff, GitHub is the Microsoft-owned code hosting platform.
I mean, millions of developers rely on it daily.
Right.
It's the absolute foundation for how most companies build and ship code.
And during this window, everything was just broken.
That was down.
Yeah.
And Copilot, the AI assistant, at one point, repository downloads hit like a 50% error rate.
Which is catastrophic.
It really is.
And, you know, this might just sound like an annoyance for your engineering team, but it is actually a massive vulnerability for small and medium businesses.
Yeah.
To understand that business risk, we first have to look under the hood.
So today we've put together a full overview of a major event that affects, well, practically every business that relies on software.
Which is basically everyone, right?
Pretty much.
And this wasn't just a brief headache.
No, not at all.
It lasted a brutal seven hours and 47 minutes.
Yeah.
Specifically from 1328 UTC to 2115 UTC.
And for anyone who doesn't live and breathe this stuff, GitHub is the Microsoft-owned code hosting platform.
I mean, millions of developers rely on it daily.
Right.
It's the absolute foundation for how most companies build and ship code.
And during this window, everything was just broken.
That was down.
Yeah.
And Copilot, the AI assistant, at one point, repository downloads hit like a 50% error rate.
Which is catastrophic.
It really is.
And, you know, this might just sound like an annoyance for your engineering team, but it is actually a massive vulnerability for small and medium businesses.
Yeah.
To understand that business risk, we first have to look under the hood.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
