Comment by LorenDB
4 months ago
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
4 months ago
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
The scale of growth they’re dealing with is insane.
“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.”
Source: GitHub COO on April 3, 2026. https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
What's causing that growth? AI bots spamming commits?
Yep
That really does put it in perspective. Wow.
I wonder if there is any correlation between them moving towards Azure.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.
They have not (re-)engineered their system, even via temporary hacks, in the last 12 months to defend itself with soft failures, circuit breakers, hard quotas, etc.
It's that simple.
They’re pushing out AI slop as production services
I see Microsoft mandated AI is doing wonders. For self hosters and Linux enthusiasts.