Replit experienced a two-hour outage on May 18th, preventing users from accessing their Repls. The downtime was caused by a latent bug in their configuration system, introduced in 2021, which led to a deadlock when a new configuration kind was deployed without a corresponding handler. This deadlock caused all virtual machines to become unresponsive, and a flawed auto-scaling configuration exacerbated the issue by reducing capacity instead of increasing it. Replit has since identified and addressed the root cause, and the system is now operating normally. AI
IMPACT This incident impacted users of the Replit platform, a tool used for coding and development, but does not represent a core AI development or release.
RANK_REASON The cluster describes a service outage for a specific product, not a new release or significant industry event.
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