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It would seem like GitHub is in a precarious situation. We have many agents per employee working in parallel pushing way more commits than was humanly possible before AI, triggering GitHub actions a lot more than the workflows were built for, causing Actions costs to escalate (they really aren't cheap if you compare to hosting it yourself), meanwhile working with YAML workflows is just a pain, and just writing code w…
Honestly I dont think I've seen a tool I used regularly with such a moat lose it simply because they cant keep the service up. Also its hard to not see a pretty strong correlation between a bunch of these big companies doubling down on AI and just having their service go to s%#$. We've had similar issues with Digital Ocean recently, which is pretty lined up with them adding a bunch of "inference" services and rebranding the site to add all the "agent" marketing slop. Looking to move to Hertzner when the time allows.
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Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? As someone who has spent many years working in high load environments, this is not an uncommon pattern. You design a system and it works great. It can handle failures, load spikes, it is horizontally scalable, things are great. You think you figured it out. And then load keeps increasing and you suddenly hit a tipping point where everything keeps…
There was a great article awhile back that shed some light on just how dysfunctional azure is as a platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242 If I had to guess it's because Github is sitting on top on infrastructure held up by toothpicks and duct tape
GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173 - October 2025 (63 comments)
I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…
I'm really kind of surprised they let us do that - like, why didn't they just have you upload the binaries after building on your local machine?
Time to rant... This is absolutely unreal. Even self-hosted runners are impacted.... How can that be? The cost of this globally has got to be in the hundreds of millions to companies that use CI/CD through GitHub Actions. What if prod is broken and GitHub actions is stalling the deployment of your hotfix? What if this makes your organization miss and SLA and diminish user trust? What if this makes you miss a release…
The fix is merged, but won't deploy... it's been hours
Thankfully it's a batch job, and isn't interrupting production ATM
Is the AI slop that bad? Culture change?
Gotta wonder what they're up to over there. Is the AI slop that bad? Culture change?
From the GitHub COO on April 3rd:
Platform activity is surging. 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.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and
strengthening GitHub’s core features.Gotta wonder what they're up to over there. Is the AI slop that bad? Culture change?
Unprecedented load. From the GitHub COO on April 3rd: Platform activity is surging. 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. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services,…