Re:Incident with multple GitHub services
by LorenDB on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:09PM
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https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
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I see Microsoft mandated AI is doing wonders. For self hosters and Linux enthusiasts.
I wonder if there is any correlation between them moving towards Azure.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services
by frakkingcylons on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:02PM
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They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services
by jeffrallen on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:39PM
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They have not (re-)engineered their system, even via temporary hacks, in the last 12 months to defend itself with soft failures, circuit breakers, hard quotas, etc.
It's that simple.
They’re pushing out AI slop as production services
The scale of growth they’re dealing with is insane.
“There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.”
Source: GitHub COO on April 3, 2026. https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services
by CodesInChaos on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:36AM
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What's causing that growth? AI bots spamming commits?
Yep