Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?

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Post by laxk » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

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Re: Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?

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Post by monadicmonad » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

super duper serious

#3

Post by sharts » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

Nobody will risk violating NDA and lose their vesting of $$ to answer to the people.

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Post by leoh » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC

What is the question being asked about?

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Post by znpy » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

Afaik github is a ruby shop.

My (wild!) guess is that their choice of ruby came back to bite their ass and now they can't keep up with the load.

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Post by apothegm » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

leoh wrote: post #4

What is the question being asked about?

Another (worse than ever) Actions outage today.

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Post by eddyg » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

For some context, GitHub COO back on April 3, 2026: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878