GitHub is recovering after a major outage

Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, is recovering after dealing with some major issues on Wednesday affecting its website and many GitHub services. The company is rolling back a “database infrastructure change” that it believes was the cause of the issues, according to its status website. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
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