Is github built out of a house of cards? How does this stuff keep happening?

GitHub usually says it's because of the increased demand from AI. I didn't believe it until I saw the numbers: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17...

	▲	cyanydeez 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not really hard to understand code is a arbitrary commodity and anyone can grab a cloud model and push code and hook into ci, then have no idea theyre triggering rebuilds everytime they rename their todo apps title.

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Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Basically yes, that's modern day cloud native large scale scalable software. Many smaller software components working together, and sometimes you get a perfect storm of issues or a single point of failure (like DNS) that fails.

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the_sleaze_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sort of.

It's on Microsoft Azure.

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core-utility 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a noninformed thought on this... I think a lot of these issues are actually because they're not on modern Cloud yet.

I think GitHub was rolling everything themselves when Microsoft bought them. Ever since, MS has been working to strategically shift to Azure but that's a difficult and careful process that takes time.

In the meantime, the AI boom hit and usage went through the roof, crippling aging non-scaled infrastructure that hasn't had a chance to be modernized yet.

A lot of issues might very well be "we broke something while migrating", but I think a lot are also simply capacity issues on legacy.

	▲	habinero 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		None of that is true, sorry. For someone the size of GitHub, the cloud is not infinite or infinitely scalable, and running their own datacenters is fine and completely normal and not at all "aging" or "crippled". Like the meme says, the cloud is just someone else's computer running in someone else's datacenter. The traffic increases they cite as the reason are absolutely the reason. Those numbers are insane.

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So a house of cards built on a foundation of shifting sand

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adamddev1 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anything people are building with agentic coding could be called a "house of cards."

It should not surprise people when things start collapsing when there have been little falsehoods and random bits of senseless codes written by agents all over the place.