When you're the uncontested market leader, you don't budget operations to be perfectly reliable, you budget to not be too unreliable. All those 9's are expensive after all.

The AI boom caught them napping though, and they're slipping well into the too unreliable category

> The AI boom caught them napping though

Microsoft, who invested eyewatering sums into AI, even near to betting the whole company on an AI boom, is surprised about the AI boom?

Microsoft bet everything on possible AGI, no one thought the result would be a bonafide commit printing machine.

That's not what Nadella said 1-2 years ago. Everyone seemed pretty aware of LLMs soon being able to handle a lot of steps of software development.

I bet it's mostly due to Azure being brittle and the AI boom is just a nice cover story (not saying it's not challenging to handle all that new load) to save face and sell more Azure services.

100% if this post (https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...) is anything to go by, it could explain much of the scaling & reliability issues.Perhaps github not being built to scale this fast + being hosted on azure is closer to the truth.

PRRRR

Microsoft considers it a bonus if a hype lets one department cripple another department.

GitHub uptime is cyclical. It's bad because they won't focus on the core, and then the right users complain and GitHub focuses on core again before it repeats. This is just the latest round exacerbated by vibe coding

Another commenter replied, but was downvoted by angry employees of Microsoft for a fairly anodyne statement.

Microsoft management knows this. It's not like there haven't been attempts to solve these core problems. The issue is GitHub was built by exceptional engineers, and none of those people are still around.

I maintain all these problems began when they migrated off Erlang and egitd. :)

It was related to their migration to Azure as far as I know

So they completed the migration? Didn't see that being reported.

I don’t know

Probably not. Also they still haven't added ipv6 support

Nobody disputes they had issues before, it’s the rate of issues that is even more noticeable now.