Recent Load Balancer ProblemsOver the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a brief summary of our existing load balancing setup, a look at its problems, and what we’re doing to fix it. Load Balancing at GitHub To handle all of GitHub’s incoming HTTP, SSH and Git traffic, we run quite a few frontend serv
