non-helpful answer: the "Microsoft Acquires GitHub" line in this graph answers all questions https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

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joshdavham 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft acquiring GitHub is not a valid root cause analysis explaining Github’s degraded SLA.

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cwnyth 8 hours ago | parent [-]

According to that graph, performance drops widely after Microsoft's acquisition before AI enters the scene. If not Microsoft, how else do you explain it, or is the graph somehow misleading?

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lordgilman 8 hours ago | parent [-]

You're the one making the argument! You need to show causality instead of correlation.

	▲	cwnyth 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've made no argument at all. I'm asking a question to a person who made the claim that "Microsoft acquiring GitHub is not a valid root cause analysis."

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flexagoon 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Note that most of the downtime in that graph comes from Github Actions, which simply didn't exist before the Microsoft acquisition.

The downtime also starts happening in 2020, which is a while after the acquisition. 2020 was the year many people started learning to code while being stuck at home.

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ciupicri 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand I think usage increased and GitHub operates now at a different scale.

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traviswingo 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Microsoft acquires GitHub and subsequently moves all infrastructure to Azure

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preciousoo 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No one hates msft more than me, but there’s no way you think this one data point is useful to explain anything at all