Between Sunday, September 13 and Wednesday, September 16, three of the largest software-as-a-service platforms in the world lost core functions for hours. In each case the company’s own explanation points inward. GitHub’s postmortem names the cause as an internal data-cleanup job, one that saturated the database cluster behind nearly every authenticated request. Salesforce says requests stalled … Continue reading GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.