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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#1

Post by cianmm » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:28 AM UTC

#2

Post by cyanydeez » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser.

or just a multifactor of both.

#3

Post by Shoetp » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #2

double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser. or just a multifactor of both.

Yes

#4

Post by lnenad » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

The memes are really painful now. I feel for the team that's is trying to survive underwater.

#5

Post by globular-toast » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

cyanydeez wrote: post #2

double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser. or just a multifactor of both.

Didn't they blame "AI" for the increased load? I'm not sure why AI usage would be more during the week than the weekend, but it could be.

It does look like Friday outages were a bit rarer, which could be due to having a "no deployments on Friday" rule.

#6

Post by bharxhav » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

Would be interesting to see if this correlated with their release cycles.

#7

Post by figmert » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

Far fewer outages during the weekends. Perfect, wasn't gonna do any work then anyway.

#8

Post by hosteur » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:10 AM UTC

bharxhav wrote: post #6

Would be interesting to see if this correlated with their release cycles.

Well, outages seem to be distributed across all days except weekends. So this seems like people fucking around with stuff being a major factor.

#9

Post by sd9 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:10 AM UTC

Weekends are the untapped frontier. Still room to scale.

#10

Post by danfritz » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.