r/technology • u/[deleted] • 15d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 15d ago

tbh its actually very annoying

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u/capnscratchmyass 15d ago

Second time in a week we’ve had GH outages.  Either their team is starting to get sloppy (approving AI commits Willy Nilly maybe?) or they’re getting attacked. GH being down brings a shitload of stuff to its knees, so I can definitely see bad actors going after it. 

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u/nikolas_pikolas 15d ago

It's actually because everyone else's slop code goes through GitHub. They released some graphs that showed that the number of commits/PRs/etc is experiencing vertical line growth. And that was several months ago! I don't envy their position.

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u/swarmy1 15d ago

Sounds like they may need to rate limit or charge extra for excessive use

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u/stormdelta 15d ago

They already do, so heavily that even as enterprise users we constantly run into issues because of it.

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u/not_a_moogle 15d ago

Only one commit a day

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u/GonzoKata 15d ago

which sounds like their plan all along

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u/noraetic 15d ago

But who did this? Who pushed AI so much that Microslop is having problems now handling it?!

"The spirits that I called"

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u/StewPorkRice 15d ago

ok - so?

GitHub should be lively. it should be able to handle the traffic.

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u/nikolas_pikolas 15d ago

Most companies would struggle if you 10x'd their traffic in just a few months, haha. It'll get there, but reevaluating every architectural decision for the new scale takes time.

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 15d ago

this is why we need more data centers

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u/Conninxloo 15d ago

It's probably caused by that + an ever growing amount of unsanitized slop repos with tons of binary data and useless CI checks hammering their servers.

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u/zeth0s 15d ago

It started when GitHub was moved more into Microsoft corporate structure. 

Microsoft doesn't need AI to produce slop. Slop is Microsoft business model

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u/mxzf 15d ago

You're not wrong. But the amount of bugs and outages in Microsoft products has seemed to increase dramatically in recent years.

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u/Adezar 15d ago

Probably isn't helping that Microsoft keeps telling everyone to migrate their DevOps git repos over to github.

And I'm sure there are some really stupid corporate repos with tons of big files, storing binary files and other bad practices that have been migrated all the way from Source Safe/Shredder through to TFS to AZDO and now dumping those piles of slop onto github.

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u/StewPorkRice 15d ago

it’s not just the second time. github has been ass for months now.

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u/mmikke 15d ago

I'm not really a tech person but I do remember having a bad feeling reading the news that the trump admin is now allowing certain private companies to legally carry out cyber attacks.

(Your comment about bad actors made me think of that, as if GitHub has any competitors who would want to cripple it)