GitHub is on Azure. Azure is notorious for being terrible. There was a post here recently from an ex-Azure engineer explaining all of this in a multi-part series.

Edit: Found the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

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Tiberium 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn't a lot of OpenAI infra also on Azure? They seem to be faring better than GitHub.

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bhouston 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I bet OpenAI has failovers to other data centers. I think they have a variety of data center provides all over the place.

	▲	prewett 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's already a noun for this: "resources"