[capableweb]

Many outages happen because something changed, and someone/something missed one of the effects of said change, bringing the platform down immediately, or after a while.

There was a period of time when GitHub basically didn't change, for years. And the platform was relatively stable (although "unicorns" (downtime)) still happened from time to time.

But nowhere near as often as now, but then again, there is a lot of more moving pieces now compared to before.