CocoaPods, one of the most popular ways to integrate libraries and dependencies into apps, recently had some performance issues. As it turns out, the reason was that it was too popular. Developers who were trying to install Pods may have had it timeout a few times, or just plain not work. An issue listing on the CocoaPods GitHub repo has since seen a response from GitHub employees, who note CocoaPods basically took down five servers. From user mhagger, an engineer on GitHub’s infrastructure team: The slow fetches and clones (which sometimes time out) that the CocoaPods community is experiencing are…
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