GitHub's reliability crisis: AI-driven load surge or self-inflicted wounds?
By
Gergely Orosz
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Summary
The article discusses GitHub's severe reliability issues, with uptime dropping to around 90% (one nine) recently. GitHub's leadership attributes the degradation to a 3.5x increase in service load, though the article suggests the problems may be self-inflicted. It examines the broader implications for other vendors who might face similar challenges with AI-driven load increases.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledGitHub's reliability has been beyond unacceptable recently: last month, third party measurements pinned it at one nine (right at 90%).
GitHub's leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
This month, reliability has been...
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