GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

surfingcomplexity.blog · 2026-08-20 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
In yesterday's post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn't say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio sidecar. Originally this was caused by an Istio sidecar pod reaching its concurrency limits and failing to auto scale correctly because of a misconfigured…

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

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