GitHub Is Down

Post by mariusor » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

lawrjone wrote: post #64

diggan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, GitHub used to favor stability back in the day, and there wasn't a lot of changes. People were complaining that GitHub didn't "improve" enough day-to-day, so after the Microsoft purchase, Microsoft started forcing GitHub to add more features, stability be damned. Most outages are caused not by stuff just randomly breaking, but updates/upgrades going wrong. If you try to increase the output of new features/changes…

I'm not totally certain you can attribute it to this. I know there's a bunch of work going on to migrate things into Azure after the MS acquisition but it feels like more of an industry trend that we cut engineering spend at the cost (often) of lower quality output and outages like these. GitHub laid off 10% of their staff in 2023 and like you say, won't have slowed down to account for that. Ignoring all that though.…