| ▲ | steeleduncan 5 hours ago |
| What has changed at GitHub to cause this? |
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| ▲ | smartmic 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| AIpocalypse. Eaten too much Copilot dog food. |
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| ▲ | bartread 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Perhaps even AIslopalypse. | | |
| ▲ | KaiserPro 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Looking at the status, its not one long outage, but lots of little ones, microslops if you will. | |
| ▲ | zahlman 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've been using "slopocalypse". People already know AI is responsible, but slop existed before — e.g. conventionally generated SEO spam. It's just... so much worse now. | | |
| ▲ | bartread 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | "Slopocalypse": yeah, I like that. Easier to pronounce too. At any rate, it seems like GitHub is back up now, so we'll see how long that lasts. |
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| ▲ | adzm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Weird Al needs to capitalize on this whole AI/Al thing |
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| ▲ | pixelesque 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Possibly a combination of moving infrastructure to Azure, and also a significant increase in the number of PRs and commits due to Vibe-coding? |
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| ▲ | pera 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/07/08/microsof... |
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| ▲ | voidfunc 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Azure |
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| ▲ | altairprime 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Azure To explain this one-word comment for those unfamiliar, see previously: GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development (5 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173 In particular: > GitHub has recently seen more outages, in part because its central data center in Virginia is indeed resource-constrained and running into scaling issues. AI agents are part of the problem here. But it’s our understanding that some GitHub employees are concerned about this migration because GitHub’s MySQL clusters, which form the backbone of the service and run on bare metal servers, won’t easily make the move to Azure and lead to even more outages going forward. | | |
| ▲ | 0xbadcafebee 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Age-old lesson: change the tires on the moving vehicle that is your business when it's a Geo Metro, not when it's a freight train. I'm sure the people with the purse strings didn't care, though, and just wanted to funnel the GH userbase into Azure until the wheels fell off, then write off the BU. Bought for $7.5B, it used to make $250M, but now makes $2B, so they could offload it make a profit. I wonder who'll buy it. Prob Google, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, or a hedge fund. They could choose not to sell it, but it'll end up a writeoff if the userbase jumps ship. |
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| ▲ | yoyohello13 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Vibe coding features. |
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| ▲ | staticassertion 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I assume this is all of the pains of going from "GHA is sorta kinda on Azure", which was a bad state, to "GHA is going full Azure", which is a painful state to get to but presumably simplifies things. |
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| ▲ | 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | qudat 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Their primary goal in the last year was to move to Azure. Any massive infra migration is going to cause issues. |
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| ▲ | seneca 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Any massive infra migration is going to cause issues. What? No, no it's not. The entire discipline of Infrastructure and Systems engineering are dedicated to doing these sorts of things. There are well-worn paths to making stable changes. I've done a dozen massive infrastructure migrations, some at companies bigger than Github, and I've never once come close to this sort of instability. This is a botched infrastructure migration, onto a frankly inferior platform, not something that just happens to everyone. |
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| ▲ | the_real_cher 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A.I. but that acronym can mean a number of things. Artificial intelligence, Azure integration, many other things. |
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| ▲ | paxys 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Senior engineers/leaders getting tired of Microsoft's shit and leaving. |
