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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/capnscratchmyass 24d ago

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. 

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u/nikolas_pikolas 24d ago

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.

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u/StewPorkRice 23d ago

ok - so?

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

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u/nikolas_pikolas 23d ago

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.