GitHub acknowledges availability incidents, scales capacity plans to 30X current demand
By
Vlad Fedorov
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Summary
GitHub experienced two recent availability incidents that the company acknowledges as unacceptable. In response, GitHub began a plan in October 2025 to increase capacity by 10X to improve reliability and failover. By February 2026, it became clear that the company needs to design for 30X today's scale, driven by rapid changes in usage and demand. The article details what GitHub has done and continues to do to improve availability and reliability.
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We started executing our plan to increase GitHub's capacity by 10X in October 2025 with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover.
By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today's scale.
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