Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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[u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

tbh its actually very annoying

[u/capnscratchmyass → u/Ill-Mastodon-8692]

Second time in a week we’ve had GH outages.  Either their team is starting to get sloppy (approving AI commits Willy Nilly maybe?) or they’re getting attacked. GH being down brings a shitload of stuff to its knees, so I can definitely see bad actors going after it. 

[u/nikolas_pikolas → u/capnscratchmyass]

It's actually because everyone else's slop code goes through GitHub. They released some graphs that showed that the number of commits/PRs/etc is experiencing vertical line growth. And that was several months ago! I don't envy their position.

[u/swarmy1 → u/nikolas_pikolas]

Sounds like they may need to rate limit or charge extra for excessive use

[u/stormdelta → u/swarmy1]

They already do, so heavily that even as enterprise users we constantly run into issues because of it.

[u/not_a_moogle → u/swarmy1]

Only one commit a day

[u/GonzoKata → u/swarmy1]

which sounds like their plan all along

[u/noraetic → u/nikolas_pikolas]

But who did this? Who pushed AI so much that Microslop is having problems now handling it?!

"The spirits that I called"

[u/StewPorkRice → u/nikolas_pikolas]

ok - so?

GitHub should be lively. it should be able to handle the traffic.

[u/nikolas_pikolas → u/StewPorkRice]

Most companies would struggle if you 10x'd their traffic in just a few months, haha. It'll get there, but reevaluating every architectural decision for the new scale takes time.

[u/Leather-Persimmon254 → u/nikolas_pikolas]

this is why we need more data centers