GitHub COO discusses reliability issues and plans to restore developer trust after year of outages

Frederic Lardinois

17d ago· 6 min readen

Summary

GitHub has experienced frequent outages over the past year, affecting services like search, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines, with hundreds of incidents logged. In an interview with The New Stack, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle (also CMO of Developer at Microsoft) explains the root causes and the company's plans to restore reliability and win back developer trust. The article explores how GitHub's rapid growth and infrastructure challenges have contributed to instability, and what measures are being taken to address these issues.

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For much of the past year, GitHub has not been the stable utility developers had long gotten used to.

Outages, hitting everything from search to GitHub Actions and the CI/CD pipelines that depend on it, have become too regular an occurrence.

The company has logged hundreds of incidents over the past 12 months and has had to apologize in public.

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For much of the past year, GitHub has not been the stable utility developers had long gotten used to. Outages,

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