GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

Post by tressure » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 6:31 AM UTC

kqgnkqgn wrote: post #321

tressure wrote: post #165

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We have set up a new enterprise and are migrating to GHE. For us this was a no-brainer; we get our own isolated environment, Enterprise Managed Users with Entra OIDC provisioning and Github Copilot in EU data residency. https://eu.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard looks pretty good to me. We will still keep our github.com enterprise around for public repositories. I’m genuinely curious to know why a company would pref…

I wasn't directly involved, but working in a couple of shops that used GH, I think they really steered people away from GHE, my impression was it's a product they don't really want to support - I vaguely recall hearing that upgrades were very painful on GHE, and the scaling / failover story was not great. Can anyone else confirm?

Post by hirako2000 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 6:49 AM UTC

cortesoft wrote: post #168

zehaeva wrote: post #141

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…

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…

Post by steelaz » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

Post by remus » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:13 AM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #333

cortesoft wrote: post #168

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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…

But that's just a perfectly fitting excuse for GitHub degradation. Web search, steaming, high frequency trading, and many other systems are resource demanding, and keep scaling. Whether to handle the surge due to bots or wider adoption. But GitHub can't scale git? It isn't even git failing. Incompetence in leadership is what makes a tech business technically unable to meet growing demand.

Post by ifwinterco » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:34 AM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #333

cortesoft wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

But that's just a perfectly fitting excuse for GitHub degradation. Web search, steaming, high frequency trading, and many other systems are resource demanding, and keep scaling. Whether to handle the surge due to bots or wider adoption. But GitHub can't scale git? It isn't even git failing. Incompetence in leadership is what makes a tech business technically unable to meet growing demand.