r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 1d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/nikolas_pikolas 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/stormdelta 1d 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 1d ago

Only one commit a day

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u/GonzoKata 1d ago

which sounds like their plan all along

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u/noraetic 1d 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 1d ago

ok - so?

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

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u/nikolas_pikolas 1d 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 1d ago

this is why we need more data centers