Incident Response

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The GitHub Outage of August 17, 2026: What Teams Can Learn

GitHub’s August 17 outage disrupted development workflows for hours. Learn how vendor reports, endpoint checks and job check-ins answer different incident questions.

August 17, 2026·3 min read

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How to Find Out About Vendor Outages Without Waiting for User Reports

Combine vendor status monitoring, public endpoint checks and useful alert routes so customer complaints are not your only way to discover a problem.

June 24, 2026·6 min read

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How to Detect When a Third-Party API Is Degraded (Not Just Down)

Full outages are easy to detect. Partial degradation — when a service is responding but not reliably — is harder and more common. Here's how to recognize the signals, and why catching them is harder than it looks.

June 24, 2026·11 min read

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How to Handle Rate Limiting From Third-Party APIs in Production

Rate limits are one of the most common production failures caused by third-party APIs. Here's how to detect them early, implement proper backoff, and build systems that degrade gracefully when you hit the ceiling.

June 24, 2026·8 min read

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How to Write a Postmortem When a Third-Party Service Causes an Outage

Third-party outages are tricky to postmortem because you didn't control the failure. Here's how to write a useful postmortem that builds resilience — even when the root cause was someone else's infrastructure.

June 24, 2026·10 min read

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What to Do When a Vendor Has No Status Page

Not every vendor publishes a public status page. Here's how to get visibility into the operational health of dependencies that tell you nothing — and why building that visibility yourself rarely scales.

June 24, 2026·10 min read

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Incident Response

The GitHub Outage of August 17, 2026: What Teams Can Learn

How to Find Out About Vendor Outages Without Waiting for User Reports

How to Detect When a Third-Party API Is Degraded (Not Just Down)

How to Handle Rate Limiting From Third-Party APIs in Production

How to Write a Postmortem When a Third-Party Service Causes an Outage

What to Do When a Vendor Has No Status Page

How to Keep Deployments Moving When GitHub Actions Is Down

How to Know If an API Is Down or Your Code Is Broken

How to Protect Revenue When Your Payment Processor Goes Down

How to Reduce Mean Time to Detect Third-Party Service Failures

How to Set Up Third-Party Service Alerts Without Creating Noise

How to Build an Incident Runbook for Third-Party Service Failures

What Vendor SLAs Don't Tell You About Actual Reliability

Why Your App Goes Down Even When Your Own Infrastructure Is Fine

How to Monitor Third-Party APIs and SaaS Dependencies (Developer Guide)