'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up
CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month
GitHub's handwringing continued this week as CTO Vladimir Fedorov offered more detail about the August 17 outage – while carefully avoiding the word "sorry."
The outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes and disrupted developers worldwide. Actions, pull requests, issues, Copilot, and APIs were among the services affected as the platform failed to scale with demand. "If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down," wrote Fedorov.
The incident followed another outage involving Actions on August 6. The platform has been wobbly for some time, something it acknowledged in April, but work to address the underlying issues has not kept pace with the relentless rise in traffic.
In April, monthly commits were at 1.4 billion. GitHub says it now handles 2.9 billion commits, 24 million new repositories, and 130 million merged pull requests each...
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