All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing
> Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.
And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.
Even if their actions running servers were at 50% load (or even 20%) at the end of 2025, they'd be screwed right now, at this point it's as much a tech/scaling problem as it is a CapEx problem and a construction one. Given the public's responses to AI specific datacenters you can't pick everything.
Even my own systems at home are burgeoning under the load of the my more ambitious hobby projects I'm doing for fun. I don't envy "we had to build five more datacenters to keep up with demand" class problems just from a how many people have to sign off on them perspective let alone the technical difficulty of doing so
They don't hire well at all. You look at who is on their research team and it's people with social science PHDs, not computer science. Looking at the state of the site it's not a surprise. Highly incompetent people have taken over for a while. Let's not forget a member of the original executive team was a sex pest too.
For like 10 years the only feature development they did was by stealing ideas from GitLab. I wouldn't be shocked if little if none engineering discipline has took place at all during this time if it's this brittle to frequent change.
Guessing it was mostly held together with duct tape and poorly written tests/monitoring systems if any other corporate driven software.
We're really going to find out over the next few years which businesses have good practices or not.
Are you kidding? That's an insane amount of load increase to manage. "Scalability" isn't one thing, especially not at that level, so it's ridiculous to knock them for it. That amount of load ripples across your entire infrastructure.
They have the backing of a trillion dollar corporation and can literally hire some of the best talent on the planet. People nor budgets are an issue here.
Why do we keep giving excuses to poor engineering disciplines + poor management? This problem is entirely GitHub's making and acting like it's some unplanned natural disaster is low key pathetic.
Before Github Actions places I worked at pushed monliths to a dedicated CI, Github just hosted the repo, now we push microservices to a monolithic deploy pipeline. I'm sure someday we'll get it right, or maybe the robots will for us.
Back of the envelope math, if anyone wants to correct my mental model: 2.1B (mincore)/week ~ 300M (mincore)/day. Assuming ~300k cores (~3k physical server CPUs, seems fine), that's 1k min/day. Seems about right, though obviously not uniformly distributed.
In any case, the number I'm focusing on here is the 300k cores part (x2 if you're counting in vcores). It does not seem like too much to ask for (significantly) more than that at github scale. It doesn't feel like a hardware issue, is what I'm getting at.
I decided to ask chatgpt for a fermi estimate of cores/datacenter, which you can check for yourself: 1~10 million physical cores. The surprising part of this for me was the "low" power usage (it used 20MW/"datacenter" as another point for estimation).
1MW ~ 6700 NYC citizens' residential usage, apparently, lol. I don't know exactly why, but that citizen number seemed a surprisingly large (well, probably because I've played with approximately-MW lasers).
Anyone have info on if other platforms are seeing the same scaling? And if so, are they seeing problems too? I definitely only hear about GitHub outages, but it is a lot bigger than the others.
They don't even let you really run those yourself now either, We moved off a big GHE footprint because the support for it was getting abysmal and features were slowly become GH.com. Ive been dreading the move to GitHub.com and it was worse than I expected.
Let’s say your goal was to improve the electric vehicle charging network. Is there a reasonable way to create a government incentive for gas stations to add charging spots in their parking areas?
clicking the hamburger menu for the first time on the mobile version of your site in private/incognito mode results in a spam redirect
edit: reproduced on chrome by setting: Network Conditions > User Agent to Safari - iPhone iOS 13.2 and Dimensions iPhone X
Looks like it sets the cookie `_p` to 1
Intel stopped using Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture and switched to Core derived from Pentium III
High power consumption and heat intensity, the resulting inability to effectively increase clock rate, and other shortcomings such as an inefficient pipeline were the primary reasons why Intel abandoned the NetBurst microarchitecture and switched to a different architectural design, delivering high efficiency through a small pipeline rather than high clock rates.
Is it common to refer to all hominids (here: homo habilis and homo erectus) as humans? For some reason I thought the term human was limited to homo sapiens (195k years old)
There have been instances of 1000 year (millennium) bonds, such as Danish energy company Orsted in 2017, Canadian Pacific Corporation in 1883(!), etc.
100 year (century) bonds are a bit more common - Disney issued a century bond in 1993, for instance. Argentina (!) issued a century bond in 2017, which it defaulted on last year, leaving creditors with around 55 cents on the dollar.
In general, long term (implicitly high risk) bonds become attractive in low yield environments such as we had been in for a couple of years up until the absolutely humongous amount of stimulus triggered by the current pandemic.
Most equity/preferred shares are considered perpetuities (i.e as long as the company is in business)
There are many many perpetual bonds still being issued today however they tend to be 'callable' at the option of the issuer ...most after 5/10/30 years, if they aren't called then they maybe called on the same date every 5yrs or so (so I don't really count them as they aren't really 'forever'.
Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK have recently issued 100 year 'Century' bonds in GBP. Thats the longest i've seen recently (I cover EUR/GBP bond markets at work)
Looks like ifixit gives the 3rd Gen Nano Battery Replacement a “very difficult”.
Anecdotally, as a person not versed in repair, I performed a laptop battery replacement ifixit deemed difficult and it was my upper limit
