Comment by Onplana
2 hours ago
Is it about funds? Why Github is not catching up with the traffic? I know there's a mass rush on Github recently specially due to Claude Code leading users to use Github. sometimes even persuasive.
2 hours ago
Is it about funds? Why Github is not catching up with the traffic? I know there's a mass rush on Github recently specially due to Claude Code leading users to use Github. sometimes even persuasive.
Because scaling complex systems is not trivial
It was pretty easy before October 2018, when Microsoft bought them:
https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=31
Not saying they are doing a particular good job but its not as simple as "paying more for bigger machines" and be done with it.
Scaling to human use vs automated/agentic use is a very different thing.
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To be fair, that was 8 years ago. Github now has all that days and users + 8 years of data and users.
Sometimes it is. There are some incredibly brute force yet simple and elegant pattern that power some of the biggest scale system you could think of.
It is relatively easy to scale a collection of simple things to extreme and exhibit complex behavior together. It is a lot harder to scale something complex to extreme. But too many times the latter is the default - designed wrong from the ground up and stuck in scaling hell.
They’re focused and hiring right and managing right, but this is just so difficult it’s bound to go down?
If Google owned GitHub would they be better positioned to scale?